The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-18 00:00:00

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MEIROPOLITAN GOSSIP-7hursday.

The minority clause, admirable in many respects, has
been felt in rather an unlooked-for and unpleasant way
during the Ministerial crisis. It was originally intended

that Mr. Brand should have a seat in the Cabinet, and
I believe that he was destined for the Home Office.
But he was a minority member,o i.e., he was
a Liberal returned by a Conservative constituency.
He would therefore have had no chance of re-election in a
single-banded contest. Such must be the case with all
" minority " members, and in fact they are excluded from
office. This is another strong reason for abolishing the
antiquated measure of Anne, which compels members
upon taking office to ask the sanction of their
constituents. As regards the other elections, the
Conservative party have behaved on the whole
with fairness. The Conservative leaders believe that
the Liberal party will prove less homogeneous than nume-
rous, and will fall to pieces when the great problem of the
Irish Church has to be solved. Mr. Disraeli and his col-
leagues, therefore, are the less anxious to do anything
which would look like personal and factious opposition.
Therefore it has been decided not to oppose the re-election
of Ministers, but to let them have rope enough, in the
hope that the usual suspensory result will follow.
It is not improbable that before long we shall see added
to the list of Government officials a Minister of Education.
It is well known that the late Government favoured this
alteration, and would have proposed it if they had not
been in a minority, and saddled with a Vice-President of
the Council—Lord Robert Montagu—who was certainly
unfit to assume Cabinet rank. There is another change
which might be made with advantage—the creation