The New Bills.

IT is impossible to get through the previsions of the two Bills which have been framed by the Government of India to give effect to the recommendations of the Rowlatt Committee without feeling at every step that the authorities are making one of those grave blunders which all Governments, not responsible to public opinion, are in moments of excitement opt to make. The wonder is that the blunder in this case is being perpetrated at a time when the country, judging from outward signs, is quite tranquil, and when the Government itself has just emerged triumphant out of a colossal struggle in respect of which it has received and gratefully acknowledged every possible form of assistance from all classes of people.  What the public in India is being offered is legislation which usually accompanies or follows a state of panic. Such a proceeding would in such circumstances have always caused the most painful surprise.