The “Pioneer” and the Reforms Committee.

THE Pioneer is evidently not certain that the Reforms Committee of the Imperial Legislative Council will pass a verdict on the Reforms scheme entirely identical with its own. That is the clear meaning of the note of warning it sounds in a recent issue as to the terrible consequences that would follow if the Committee made recommendations which could not be accepted. We have already said more than once that these consequences are purely imaginary, and that there can be no question of British statesmanship either dropping or postponing the reforms, merely because there are differences of opinion in India regarding them or because there are people who ask what England is not in a mood to grant yet.