ld think an explanation necessary. No draft of
instructions or orders to be sent out without having been previously
submitted to the Queen. The label on the boxes of the Office
containing such drafts to be marked "For Approval."

In cases of Civil appointments the Secretary of State will himself
take the Queen's pleasure before communicating with the gentlemen to
be appointed.

Copies or a _precis_ of the Minutes of the Council to be regularly
transmitted to the Queen.

The Secretary of State to obtain the Queen's sanction to important
measures previously to his bringing them before the Council for
discussion.

[Footnote 48: The India Office.]

[Pageheading: LORD PALMERSTON]

_Memorandum by the Prince Albert._

OSBORNE, _4th September 1858_.

The most remarkable feature of the last Session of Parliament has been
the extraordinary unpopularity of Lord Palmerston, for which nothing
can account; the only direct reproach which is made to him, is to have
appointed Lord Clanricarde Privy Seal, and to have been overbearing in
his manner. Yet a House of Commons, having been elected solely for the
object, and on the ground of supporting Lord Palmerston personally
(an instance in our Parliamentary history without parallel), holds him
suddenly in such abhorrence, that not satisfied with having upset his
Government, which had been successful in all its policy, and thrown
him out, it will hardly listen to him when he speaks. He is frequently
received with hooting, and throughout the last Session it sufficed
that [he] took up any cause for the whole House voting against
it, even if contrary to the principles which they had themselves
advocated, merely to have the satisfaction of putting him into a
minority. How can this be accounted for? The man who was without
rhyme or reason stamped the only _English_ statesman, the champion of
liberty, the man of the people, etc., etc., now, without his having
changed in any one respect, having still the same virtues and the same
faults that he always had, young and vigorous in his seventy-fifth
year, and having succeeded in his policy, is now considered the head
of a clique, the man of intrigue, past his work, etc., etc.--in fact
hated! and this throughout the country. I cannot explain the enigma
except by supposing that people had before joined in a cry which they
thought was popular without themselves believing what they said and
wrote, and that they now do the same; th