There has been no recurrence of the insubordination on the part of the troops st Macao, The Government at Lisbon has honoured the promise of the late Governor to exempt them, from punishment "having regard to good intention" underlying the breach of discipline, bat the telegram impresses. pon the men that any farther demonstration of the kind will be treated a a. proteat aguinst the Republic and be dealt with 'a8 treason. Civilians instigating or inciting a disturbance of public order arp aleo warned. It is not clear when ther the telegram accords a pardon to the civilians concerned in the recent affair and the wish is probably father to the thought in many minds that it does nat, for it is commonly said that the "revolt bad a civilian origin. This week the Acting Governor has suspend-the publication of the Repablican paper " Verdade" which has been mach criticized for its anti-clerical campaign, No arrangements have so far been made to carry on the female educational work which has for so mang years been directed by-the Franciscan Sisters, bat there has been some effort apparently to alleviate the misery and distress occasioned by the banishment of twenty-five out of the thirty Italian Sisters who have carried on a great philanthropic work among the orphans and the indigent poor. In the convent of Santo Antonio they cared for upwards of six hundred of them, and the consequences of the abandonment of this work: may be wocarried on this work remain in the imagined. Only five of the thirty Sisters
tive the folly of their adventure would olorly, and the troops who now: per-gladly welcome the return of these devoted. women. But the govern authorities of the Order at home are at Present opposed to their return to Macao. Dr. Vidal, the Acting Governor, is doing his best to bring order out of the present chaos in the Colony, but the has declined the substantive appoint-day|ment. The. two Chinese gunboats, which have been at Macao since the
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