17 MAY 1856, Page 8

Mr. Henry George Hughes, of Cornadrung, has been returned for

Long- ford, in the room of the late Mr. Richard Maxwell Fox. There was no opposition.

The Times, " upon the best possible authority," contradicts two reports in the Indian papers,—first, that orders have been sent out to annex Hyderabad in the Deccan ; next, that preliminary steps have been taken to absorb Baroda. Both stories arc destitute of foundation.