--Rio Janeiro papers are received to January 19. The only news they contain is in regard to the elections, which took place all over the empire on December 30. Returns from such of the provinces as have been heard from give the conservatives a majority over the liberals, though in some the majority is very trifling.
There never before was an election in
Brazil conducted with more warmth of party feeling or which caused more general excitement among the people.
In some places serious disturbances occurred.
In
Pernambuco one man was killed, and in the town of
Nazareth, in Babia, two were killed and some twenty wounded. The
Archbishop of the latter province is dead.
