... BL.ELEUTION INTJLLIG.EN'E. l ,; I BANBURY. The contest at this election yesterday was an ex- citin on, and resulted in the return of the local liberal can- didate, Oby a majority of one. For some time the candidates kept pretty well together on the poBl, at half-past nine they were exactly equal, and at ten o'clock the return was as followe: Hardy ?? Miall .. ?? BY twelve o'clock it became ...

... IYSE A.D LOBS OESIX LIZVESATP1ADDLYGIO On Saturday morning, between the hours of 2 and S o'clock, a fire involving the loss of a serious amount of pro- perty, the lives of not fewer than five human beings, and serious injury to four others, took place on the premises of Mr. John Rufus Reeves, eatinghouse-keeper, Great James street, Paddington. The fire was discovered by police-constable D 261, ...

... IL- - The Navy Estimates for the year 1859-6w Wer issued yesterday. The net increase, as nompared with last year, is 961,8101. pre The first item in thV TVA i- thbt of waves to seamen and ruarines. The sum required to be voted for this purpose, for the year 1859-60, is 2,487,0621., being an increase of 85,&631. over the vote for the last financial year. The next item, viz., victuals for the ...

... TH. EA FTAZ aFRA Y NEA4R e .DEBBRR. I A , T . . , At the Lancaister Assizes, on Friday, Samuel ' Davidge, 34, was charged with the wilful murder of Robert x Robinson, at the Ferry Hotel, Windermere, on the 7th De- I *ember 1858 Mr. Krice conducted the pros~ecution, arid Mr. C. Foster c appeared for the prisoner. c The first witness called was Ann Mason, who deposed that she was waiter at the ...

... I INDIA. The following telegram, from Mr. Acting Consul- General Green, was received at the Foreign-office on Tuesday morning at 310 a.m., and appeared in our Evening Editien of yesterday: ALEXANDRIA, FEB, 2,1859. The steamer Nemesis arrived at Suez on the 30th January. Dates:-Calcutta, 9th January; Madras, 13th January; Hong Kong, 30th December. The following telegram is dated ALLAHABAD, ...

... ILATEST FROM ABROAD, I NAPLES. BARI, JAN,. 28. The King of Naples arrived here yesterday evening. FRANCE. PARIS, FEB. 1, 1.17 r.Pr. The Boarse opened very flat, with a further de- cline of s per cent. in Rentes. 2.28 P.n. A sudden rise has taken place, and Rentes are now 68.50 in liquidation, and 68.60 for February account. IThe Bourse is very animated, and the prices of securities are ...

... One of the Madrid journals having asserted that Spain cannot avoid taking part in the conflict which I aopears not unlikely to arise in Europe, especially if 0 England interferes in it, the semi-official Corre- spsondancia asserts that the present c)binet is deter- f mined to maintain the strictest neutrality. t We find in the Madrid papers of the 26th ult, the 1 following report of somewhat ...

... JJOASON ELEC71ON. BOSTON, THURSDAY. The appointment of Mr. W. H. Adams, AIP. for Boston, to the vacent recordership of Derby rendered it incumbent on the hen. gentleman to solicit re-election at the hands of his constituente, and this morning hawas returned without opposition. The hon. gentleman returned thanks for the honour con- ferred upon him in a speech of some length, in which be ex- ...

... I (FROM OURD OWEN CORXESPONDEN3T.) [The following appeared in our Evening Edition of yes- terday]: tPARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The news of the day-which, as you will have learned by telegraph, has produced a considerable effect upon the Bourse-is thus announced by the Presse: The great news of the day is the departure of Lord CowVley forVienna, whitherhe is gono, it issaid, to submit toAustri% ...

... (FROM OUP. OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LTbe following appeared in our Evening Edition of yesterdayl: PARIS, TinnsDAT EVrNING. The latest rumours of the day are altogether war- like. England, it is believed, has urged Austria to evacuate the Legations, and to lend herself to re- forms in Rome and Naples; but there is not the slightest chance that these concessions would be ac- cepted by France and ...

... I PEBSERCUTIoN OF F2WOTBNTAN7AVN TBFAMCB. I Our Paris correspondent some time since called v attention to the fact of a man named Bessner, a pensioner' a en alinishouee at Colular, hav'in,- been prosecuted asss an ?? licensed hawker, for having lent a tract to an intimate friend 1 in. Which the dogma of the Imumacuolate Conceptiono Was con-i- trovoltedl. The, case, which has excited ...

... I I RAILWAY INZTBELLIGENCE. LONDON 4ND BOU1B. WESTERN. T~he half-yearly general' meeting of the share- holders of the South-Western RailaY Companly was he'd yesterday at the Waterloo terminus. CHLARLES CASTLEMAN, Esq., chairman of tbe company, pr~eided. A considerable Inumber of the proprietors were present. The report of the Ldirertors has already appeared in ?? .l'ws. Accoding to the ...