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FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. The Syndic of Rome has under consideration a proposition made by a Pari* firm to light some of the Sl streets and piaszas of the city with electricity on the ? occasion of the return of the King and Queen to 11 Rome, for which great preparations are being made. II The arrival of the representative of this firm and the negotiations which have followed have caused a alight J: fall in gas shares. p The Journal du Commerce. Maritime is reepon e Bible for the following report of an alleged cure of ] a hopeless case of yellow fever at New Orleans. I A man who had been attacked with the fever, and I was lying in a dying state at the Charity Hospital, I having been for twenty-four hoars in the last stages of ( the disease, was made the subject of an experiment by a ( Dr. Samuel Choppin, who, seeing that there was not J the slightest chance of saving his life by any recognised < methods of treatment, determined to put into practice a theory of his own by trying the effects of ice treat- 1 ment. The patient, divested of all clothing, was placed in a kind of net, under which an indiarubber sheet was hung, and constantly syringed with iced water. At the end of two hours and a quarter the heat of the body was reduced from 105 degrees to 58 degrees, and the beating of the pulse from 100 to 90 a minute. On stopping the use of the iced water the body regained its normal temperature, the fever dis- appeared, and the patient slept." The Libtrtd, prints a well-merited eulogium on his Majesty King Humbert. It says While during the crisis every one appeared to have lost their heads, the young, sagacious Monarch went straight along his path. Notwithstanding that a number of journals had for months represented the Cairoli-Zanardelli Cabinet as lesding direct te a Republic, King Humbert had confided to one of theoi the duty of forming a second Cabinet. Some may say he only did his duty, but is the fulfilment of a duty not a title to merit ? What might not have been the consequences had he listened to the suggestions of those who would have had him dismiss the Oairoli Cabinet and intraat a general to form another in order to save the Monarchy ? Fortunately, such an error is not compa- tible with the loyal and magnanimous character of the House of Savoy. King Humbert, who ascended the throne but a few months ago, has already shown him- self the worthy inheritor of the virtue and wisdom of his father and deserving the admiration and confidence of the Italian people. A few weeks ago. Chinese officer belonging to the staff of Tsm-Taya&Fzyoon (the Governor General of Djitishar), in returning from Shikho to Tchugutchak, approached the Russian frontier, and begged of the commandant of the, Bachtee Lines to be allowed to escort a convoy he had of twenty-four waggons of corn and tea to Tchugutchak through Russian terri- tory. He stated that the track between Shikho and his destination was closed by the insurgent forces, and th!\t if he endeavoured to force his way through them he might lose his convoy. The Russian commandant complied with the request, and a few days after he also permitted the despatch of provisions across Russian territory to the Chinese garrison at Manas. The position of the Chinese settlers in the distriet contiguous to Kulja is considered very bad. Bands of armed Sarantchi roam the country and ravage the villages and farms. Several times they have crossed over into Russian territory and attacked the Cossack guards. They are not so successful with these, however, as with the Chinese soldiers, and have invariably been roughly treated by the Cossacks' Berdan rifles. From Kashgar and Yarkond there is no news other than that both towns still remain in the possession of the Chinese. The Osservatore Romano gives particular promi- nence to an inspired note replying to some articles which have recently appeared in the Journal des Debats on the subject of the independence enjoyed by the Pope. The Osservatore says it is not for it to inquire whether the supreme Pontiff would not enjoy less liberty in any other city in the world, tut it is necessary for it and all honest men to pro- test, in the name of truth and justice, against the affirmation that the Vicar of Christ, in Rome is not at present sub hostili potestate constitus, and that it does not render the government of the Universal Church most difficult to him. The facts are irrefutable, and the arguments of the Holy Father Leo XIII. as set forth in most important documents cannot be de- stroyed by the empty words of the Journal des Dtbats. The Cologne Gazette reports the adoption of a now programme by the Social Democrat Association for the defence of the interests of the labouring popula- tion, intended to meet the demands of the new law. The association aims now only at the extension of the political influence of the people, at full freedom of the press, at gratuitous teaching in the schools and universities* at the legal regulation of the hours of labour in manufactories, at protection of female labour and prohibition of the employment of young children in manufactories, and at complete local self- gevernment. The New York Herald has given an account of the career and execution of a miscreant, named "Bill Lengley," who received the richly earned reward of his crimes at Giddings, Texas, on the 11th of October. Texas has been a sort of happy hunting-ground for desperadoes for well nigh half-a-century, but this fellow seems to have been the worst of all the scoundrels who have haunted it. He was only 26 years of age; yet from the time he was 14 years of age he was a murderer, and this not always from provocation, but more frequently from sheer love of wickedness. He seemed to (lead a,charm life. When only 15 he was pursued by a detachment of United States cavalry, who discharged, in vain, forty ahote after him. A soldier closed with him, but his pistol went off, killing the soldier, and he escaped. He was hanged by a body of regulars, and as he did not seem to die quickly enough for their taste they flred two revolver shots at him. One struck a belt lined with gold pieces, the other shot cut two strands of the rope, and a lad coming up soon after cut him down and rescued him. More than once he made sham surrenders to enable confederates to obtain rewards of 81000 and 81500 offered for his capture. When the reward was secured he contrived with their connivance to get off. Of course, he could never settle anywhere, as much because of his own restless dispo- sition as on account of the pursuit of justice. He wandered all over Texas and the adjoining States, travelling into the wild regions of the West, robbing, plundering, and murdering as he went along. Once, while keeping a bar-room for miners in the Big Horn Mountains, he and eight companions went out on a hunting excursion and were caught in a snow- storm. Three of them were frozen to death, and he had to keep his bed for five months, but finally recovered. His last performance was the shooting of a man named Anderson, who, he heard, had killed his cousin. He walked up to the man as he was working in a field and ahot him dead. This was his thirty-second well-authenticated murder. It was committed on the 31st of March, 1876, but various delays and legal artifices have prevented his execution till the other day, more than three years and a half after the crime. On the scaffold he con- ducted himself with some bravado; but he accepted the assistance of a clergyman, and made a short speech which may be interpreted as expressing regret for his awful deeds. He acknowledged that he deserved his fate, and askei all to forgive him.