20 NOVEMBER 1875, Page 3

It is stated that a plot has been discovered at

Rangoon to seize the Arsenal, and that many Burmese have, in consequence, been arrested. " Burmese " may be our subjects, or subjects of the King of Burmah, but the latter is much the more probable. The Burmese are, next to the Parsec*, the most contented subjects we have in Asia, and are not in the least likely to play into the hands of -the Court of Ava, which, if the story is true, has cer- tainly not given up the idea of recovering Pegu. The story requires some further confirmation.