On Thursday the names of the members of the Royal
Com- mission to inquire into the Militia and Volunteers were an- nounced. They are :—Chairman—The Duke of Norfolk, Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 2nd. V.B. Royal Sussex Regiment. Members — Lord Derby ; Lord Grenfell; Sir Coleridge Grove; Colonel O'Callaghan-Westropp, Command- ing Clare Artillery (Militia); Lieutenant-Colonel E. H. Llewellyn, M.P., 4th Batn. Somersetshire Light Infantry ; Colonel J. A. Dalmahoy, V.D., Commanding let Midlothian R.G.A. (Vols.); Colonel E. Satterthwaite, V.D., Commanding 2nd V.B. Royal West Kent Regiment; Sir Ralph Knox, K.C.B. ; Henry Spenser Wilkinson, Esq. The secretary is H. W. W. McAnally, Esq., War Office. The Commission is a fairly strong one—we are specially glad to see this recog- nition, real if tardy, of the sound and excellent work done by Mr. Spenser Wilkinson—on the lines on which Commissions are now always appointed; but we should have preferred to see it a Jury of Inquest rather than a Committee of Experts. The experts are the natural witnesses, and witnesses should be in the box, not on the Bench.
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