Lord Islington on India.

AT a conference of the members of the British and Dominion Parliaments held last summer in London a number of questions were discussed, of which one was about India and the Empire. A short account of the proceedings published in the Times  shows that at the meeting Lord Islington supported the idea of including India in the Imperial Council. He is reported to have said:-"It is quite true that India does not possess self-government in the accepted sense, as recognised by the self-governing Dominions, but she does claim, by reason of her size, geographical position, volume of trade, intellectual and political development, military value, and last but not least, by her proved loyalty to the Crown, that her exceptional position should now be recognised, and that she should be admitted as an articulate member to discussions affecting the Empire as a whole."