A Grave Error of Judgment.

ANGLO-Indian critics who ridicule the accepted and chosen leaders of the people whose wants and opinions are expressed at the Legislative Councils in India, make a very great mistake and even add to the difficulties of the future. The Indiaman unfortunately devotes three-fourths of its leading article to doubt the memorandum of after-war reforms submitted to the Viceroy by 19 members of the Imperial Legislative Council as being truly representative of Indian opinion. But towards conclusion our contemporary thinks the memorandum has some significance, and says: “It shows once again, what we have so frequently pointed out that the existing system of representation is seriously defective, the foundations are inadequate to support the structure designed the architects, and the stability of the edifice is thereby endangered. The signatories to the memorial form a substantial portion of the Imperial Council.”