The Government have declared their intention to appoint a Royal
Commission to inquire into the relations between Capital and Labour, and, of course, into the various modes in which it is believed that those relations might be im- proved. The Commission is to be strong enough to repre- sent all the more deeply interested classes, but not so unwieldy as to render the investigation unpromising, or to render its report within a limited time difficult. Of course a great deal will depend on the selection of names for the Commission, and most of all on the selection of the Chairman. We are not sure that the Government could do better than make Lord Rosebery the head of the Commission. He is, as we all know, a most able manager of bodies of this kind ; he would be trusted to a large extent by the working classes without being in any way identified with their doctrinee, and he would feel the vast importance of the investigation, and bring to it great abilities. There is no Cabinet Minister who would have time enough for so complicated and difficult a task.
