QUESTION, (Translated from Der Ostasiatische Lloyd.
There is no' doubt that th" better an more discreet part of the inhabitants of Shanghai have returned to a more calm judgment of the situation after the excitement of the last weeks, and that the feel: g which remains after the intoxication of the last weeks cin oily be a feeling of shame that otherwise sensible people should have allowed themselves to be Jed away by impassioned talkers, men without far-reaching (if any) interest in the welfare and thriving of our community, such as American dentists, missionaries, and simi-Jar individuals, "in opposition to the established representatives of the citizens, iz., the Consulsand the Municipal Council, and permitted themselves in the heat of the moment to be led into voting for resolutions which, even if they could have been carried out, would in no way have improved the situation, They must also feel that now, when they have accepted the measures which were formerly. condemned by those heroes of the tongue, they have made themselves the laughing-stock not only of the Chinese by whom we are surrounded, but also of all the outports which have hitherto considered Shanghai as a sort of metropolis, with a population to a certain extent able to judge fo themselves and with a will of their own. Everybody must feel that Shanghai's prestige and importance has suffered immeasurably through the. immoderate and perfectly wrong proceedings of the citizens, that the fight about the wheelbarrows will remain an. everlasting reproof, and that the curse. of ridicule will
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