Trouble has broken out at Macao with the newly-arrived infantry. A plot was discovered, in good time it would seem, for the breaking out of the soldiers into open mutiny; but owing to its prompt discovery the leaders were arrested, and a body of marines was landed from the gunboat Zaire and quartered in the city barracks. A court-martial is now being held to inquire into the alleged grievances of the men. It is stated that the soldiers complain that they do not get their pay at the rate promised them in Lisbon, and that the rations are inferior in' both quality and quantity to what they had been led to expect. It seems a great pity that such grievances should exist, and it is to be hoped that steps will be promptly taken to redress any well-founded complaint of that kind, The men have come a long way to a very dull corner of the world.
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