Lord Granville's reply that a Vice-President of the Board °DM.%
Education, who must be a member of the Privy Council, is often• made a Privy Councillor only to qualify him to be Vice-President -4 is irrelevant, because there the Privy Councillorship is required not in the least as an evidence of personal qualification, but as a condition of his official duties. Would Lord Granville maintain if the India Government Act had required that one member of the- Council of India should be a member of a London and Calcutta merchant's firm at the time of his appointment, that it would have- been no evasion of the Act to get Sir Louis Mallet (otherwise a very fit and proper person) passed for ten days through the form- of such a partnership? The Lords, however, being very anxious not to weaken the Government unnecessarily, passed Lord Port- man's amendment by a majority of one, 88 for the Government, to 87 for Earl Stanhope's censure.
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