3 AUGUST 1912, Page 3

Wednesday's papers contained the announcement that a Royal Commission bad

been appointed to examine and report in connexion with the Indian Civil Service as to the methods of recruitment, the conditions of service, and the limitations to the employment of non-Europeans. Among theCommis- sioners, who are twelve in number, we may mention Lord Islington, the Chairman; Lord Ronaldshay, M.P.; Sir Theodore Morison, Sir Valentine Chirol, Mr. Gokhale, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, and Mr. Herbert Fisher.