September 4.
Tue important Orders in Council which we reproduce in another column, as they will be posted at the Supreme Court to-morrow, have not been issued before ther were called for, as a very cursory lance at their provisions and comparison of them with those contained in the Order in Council of 1904 will sufficiently reveal, Only within so little a period as the last three years changes, such as will readily occur to every mind, have come about with startling dity, not only in the internal Shanghai herself, but in international events which react: directly upon the lives viduals. More and more the foreign community in China tends, by natural evolution and geographical position, so far from the mother country, to concentrate upon itself as a self-responsible, independent entity. This tendency demands that the hands of the local Executive be strengthened; by greater freedom where passing events call for spontaneity of action: by firmer restriction where excessive liberty in the interpretation of statutes might be turned to account for their defeat. Both these neces sities appear to have been kept carefully in view in the construction of the Amendment Order. In certain cases, to be referred to in detail presently, the provisions of the Order of 1904 have been notably expanded and solidified; in others, the authorities, both judicial and consular, are allowed greater powers of discretion which should be productive of economy of time in the Law Courts, and smoothness of working in the mutual relations of the community's different sections, These two broad divisions may be said to cover the four most important provisions of the first of the two new Orders, namely, tht provisions dealing with infringement rigi nal from
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