[56:1] This is the opinion of two of the most prominent Prime Ministers of the century. Ashley, "Life of Palmerston," II., 330; Morley, "Life of Walpole," 159; the latter representing, as has already been pointed out, the views of Mr. Gladstone.
[57:1] For an example of the difficulties that arise on this score, cf. Morley, "Life of Gladstone," II., 628-29. Lord Rosebery, who, after being Prime Minister in 1895, was left out of the next Liberal cabinet in 1905, had taken himself out of the field by saying that he could not serve in a ministry whose chief held the views on Home Rule that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman had expressed.
[57:2] Cf. Parker, "Sir Robert Peel," II., 486-89; III., 347-48.
[58:1] Todd, "Parl. Govt. in England," 2 Ed., II., 189-90.
[60:1] If the post of Lord Privy Seal is not needed for this purpose, it is given, without salary, to the holder of some other office.
[60:2] The President of the Council had in the past a somewhat undefined authority in connection with the Committee of the Council on Education, but this committee has now been replaced by a Board.
[61:1] The Law Officers present occasional exceptions.
[61:2] As in the case of Mr. Birrell in the present ministry, a man who is not in Parliament may, of course, be included in a new cabinet in the expectation that he will win a seat at the impending dissolution.
[61:3] Eng. Const., 1 Ed., 228-30.
[63:1] Cf. Todd, "Parl. Govt. in England," II., 405, note w.