Registered at the G.P.O. s Price.' 30 as a Newspaper. > By Post 330 India No. i,060 Old Series.1 No. 966 New Series.J FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1916. Notes and News .......... ...... 1 The New India Case ......... Indians in the United States: A Protest Against the Exclusion Bill......................... 3 What India Wants: Interview with Lala Lajpat Rai............... 4 Dr. Rutherford on India and Self- Government ...................... 4 The New Statesman on India After the, War.............. ... 5 Mr. Herbert Burrows on Ireland, India, and the Empire .......... 5 Indian Police Methods: A Calcutta Merchants Story ............. 5 The Government of Madras and Mrs. Besant ................... 6 The Problem of the Depressed Classes ...................... 6 Indian Students at Oxford ....... 6 Mr. Chamberlains Tribute to the Indian Soldier............. ... 7 Lord Kitchener and India ....... 7 Calls to the Bar ............... 7 Indian Affairs in Parliament: (Special Report) ..............' 8 *** O wing to the restrictions imposed by the Govern- ment upon the consumption of paper, we find ourselves compelled to reduce the number of our pages. 4 s a rule, therefore, our issues during the current half- year may be expected not to.exceed eight- pages. At the same time the rise in prices of material, and especially of paper, has been suck that the cost of pro- duction will remain much the tame as that of bringing out a twelve-page paper before the war. NOTES AND NEWS. MENTION was made by the Times in its last edu- cational supplement of an import^nt^nodifica- tion in the conditions under which Indians are admitted to the Universities of Oxford and Cam- bridge. The Students Department of tljp India Office has been successful iff securing admissions for -Indians_to colleges formerly barredto them : but many- of the colleges have made it a condition that the student should be under the financial guard ianship^of the Local Advisor, appointed by the Department. Young Indians, says the Times, have been inclined to dislike the official origin of this machinery and the differentiation made between them and other students from foreign ocuntries. The difficulty is being solved at Oxford, where the Hebdomadal Council have approved of the creation of a delegacy for Oriental students, which will carry on the work of the Local Advisor, Mr. Burrows, who will be one. of its members. In addition to Indians the delegacy will look after Egyptian, Chinese, and other Eastern undergraduates. Cambridge is understood to be taking a similar course bv inter-collegiate, as dis- tinct from university, action. The details of these ar- rangements for the transfer of the work of the advisors are not yet quite ripe for publication ; but enough is known of the development for a cordial welcome* to be given it. The new regulation under which no person will be eligible for admission to the Indian Civil Service who has applied to a military tribunal for exemption on tfle ground of a conscientious objection to combatant ser- vice will come into force at the expiration of fortffJ days from July t, and is intended to applv^to candi- dates at the open competitions of 1916 and subsequent years. The English Press is beginning to take up the agita- tion against the Bill to supplement the Indian Consolida- tion Act of last year, which is now under consideration by a joint committee of both Houses. The point upon which attention is concentrated is a section which (as we showed last week) overrules the decision of the Privy Council in the vase of the Secretary of State v. Moment, by depriving the public ofMhcir right to resort to the civil courts in cases in which disputes arise as to the existence of private and Government rights in land. No. 1.* Vol. XLVI. The Birmingham Post, observing that protests have been made by the Bombay and Burma Chambers of Commerce, recalls the dictum of Lord Moulton in the case in question: To shut out the >civil altogether would be insufferable, and would mean read- ing into the. Act the words provided the Gover.nor- General-in-touncil may deprive every subject of his suits, remedies, and proceedings. The World does not scruple to describe the introduction of the section into the Bill as a mean official trick, but spoils its criticism by assuming that "it is only the rights of the Anglo-Indian commercial community which are threat- ened. The Birmingham Post says that the official answer is that the object of the section of the Bill to which particular exception is taken is to remove the doubt created by the Privy Councils decision as to the powers of the Indian Executive so to legislate as to exclude recourse to the ordinary courts, and that it is certainly not intended to take power to prevent recourse to the courts by mere Executive action. * Another Indian statute has been coming prominently into public notice. The appointment ok Mr. Lloyd George to succeed Lord Kitchener as Secretary of State for War is announced this (Friday) mornj,ngy but it had perforce to be accompanied bv the t^gsiTf of Sir Ed- ward Grey- to the House of Lords. Under the provi- sions of the Government of India Act of 1858, no more than four Principal Secretaries. of State, with four Lffider Secretaries, may sit at one time in the House of Commons. It is understood that Mr. Chamberlain declined to exchange the India Office for the Minis- try of Munitions, and that Mr. Bonar Law and Ir. Herbert Samuel were equally determined not to leave the Colonial Office and the Home Office. The point of constitutional procedure had to be met, therefore, by an earldom for Sir Edward Grey, and the substitution of Lord Derby for Mr. Tennant as Under Secretary of State for War. It is stated by the Weekly Dispatch that Lord Morley, who has maintained a discreet silence since his resignation from the Cabinet on the outbreak, of the war, has written a manuscript to be published after his death that may be described as an apologia for his atti- tude. There is a possibility, however, of the manuscript being published soon after the war ends. The Right f^on. Sir Charles Swann, Bart., M.P., completed thirty years unbroken representation of North Manchester, in Pariiament^n^Jfuly 2. Indians will, we feel sure, desire to congratulate him upon the anniversary : for he has been a faitffful spokesman of their claims and their grievances during the whole of that time. . We publish in another column the resolution of the Government of India on the subject of the depressed clashes. It is understood that an Indian officer, Rai Bahadur Pandit Hari Kishen Kaul, C.I.E., has been placed on special duty and posted to Simla, in con- nexion with the enquiry which is being undertaken. Mr. Ambika Charan Mazumdar has been elected by the municipalities of the Dacca division as their repre- sentative on the Bengal Legislative Council. The choice is an admirable one, and has given general satis- faction. Mr. Mazumdar is not only an old member of the Council, but one of the honoured veterans of the Congress, and his book on Indian National Evolu-