Judges sit on the Bench in the High Courts on terms of complete equality with their European colleagues, but magisterial work all over India is done chiefly by Indians.  The same holds good of the Revenue Department and of the much, and often very unjustly, abused Department of Police; and, in fact, as Anglo-Indian officials are the first to acknowledge, there is not a department which could be carried on to-day without the loyal and intelligent co-operation of the Indian public servant.  There is room for improving the position of Indians, not only, as I have already pointed out, in the Educational Department, but probably in every branch of the “Provincial” service, which corresponds roughly with what was formerly called the “Un-covenanted” service.  As far back as 1879 Lord Lytton laid down rules which gave to natives of India one-sixth of the appointments until then reserved for the “Covenanted” service, and we have certainly not yet reached the limit of the number of Indians who may ultimately with advantage be employed in the different branches of the public service; but few who know the defects as well as the good qualities of the native will deny that to reduce hastily the European leaven in any department would be to jeopardize its moral as well as its administrative efficiency.  The condition of the police, for instance, is a case in point, for any survival of the bad old native traditions is due very largely to the insufficiency of European control.  Mr. Gokhale has himself admitted as one of the reasons for founding his society of “Servants of India” the necessity of “building up a higher type of character and capacity than is generally available in the country.”  For the same reason we must move slowly and cautiously in substituting Indians for Europeans in the very small number of posts which the latter still occupy.  That the highest offices of executive control must be very largely held by Englishmen so long as we continue to be responsible for the government of India is admitted by all but the most “advanced” Indian politicians, and it is to qualify for and to hold such positions that the Indian Civil Service—­formerly the “Covenanted” service—­is maintained.  It consists of a small elite of barely I,200 men, mostly, but not exclusively, Englishmen, for it includes nearly 100 Indians.  It is recruited by competitive examinations held in England, and this is one of the chief grievances of Indians.  But in order to preserve the very high standard it has hitherto maintained, it seems essential that Indians who wish to enter it should have had not only the Western education which Indian Universities might be expected to provide, but the thoroughly English training which India certainly does not as yet supply.