[40:1] Lee, "Life of Queen Victoria," 74-75.
[40:2] Parker, "Sir Robert Peel," II., 415 et seq.
[40:3] English Const., 1 Ed., 103.
[41:1] Gladstone, "Gleanings of Past Years," I., 85.
[41:2] Morley, "Life of Walpole," 155.
[41:3] This was in 1880. Lee, "Life of Queen Victoria," 451.
[42:1] "Gleanings of Past Years," I., 86, 87.
[42:2] For the same reason the President of the Board of Control objected in 1842, when Lord Ellenborough, the Governor General of India, took upon himself to write directly to the Queen, a proceeding which would undoubtedly not be permitted to-day. Parker, "Life of Sir Robert Peel," II., 591.
In 1885 Lord Randolph Churchill tendered his resignation as Secretary of State for India, because the Prime Minister, without consulting him, had transmitted to the Viceroy a suggestion by the Queen that one of her sons should be appointed to the command of the forces in Bombay. The appointment was not made, and Lord Randolph withdrew his resignation. Winston Churchill, "Life of Lord Randolph Churchill," I., 503-13.
[43:1] Cf. Dicey, "Law of the Constitution," 5 Ed., 392.