The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1838-11-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LORD DURHAM AND THE MINISTRY. (From the John Bull.) Lord Durham is uot arrived, although by poetica - .  license our facetious parodist of to-dav gives an ac. count of his " appearance," Lord Melbourne feels, with regard to his return, much as the children do, who beg for the absence of old Nick— " For if he comes"—  he will inflict upon his lordship and his colleagues such a castigation as may render the tenure of their seats in the Council inconvenient, if not impossible. It may be remembered that some fortnight since we mentioned the receipt of a letter from Canada, the contents of which we were not permitted to impart to our readers. The murder is now out, and the Canadian papers state, from what they hold to be unquestionable authority, that Lord Durham has stated that the appointment of Mr. Turton, which Lord Melbourne denounced in the House of Lords, and not only denounced but declared_ his disbelief in, was made at Lord Melbourne's own suggestion. To this report we give no credit : it must be something more than newspaper authority, however respectable its sources of information may be, that will induce us to give credence for one moment to the possibility of such conduct on the part of Lord Melbourne—the thing is impossible. The only thing, which may in any degree justify such an insinuation, is the possibility of the existence of a letter written to Lord Durham by Mr. Stanley, by Lord Melbourne's direction, touching Mr. Turton's appointment, and which may give some colouring to the American statements that Lord Melbourne knew more of the appointment than he admitted in the House of Lords; but we repel, with scorn and indignation, the attempt of a Colonial faction to fasten upon a nobleman of high honour and principle (however unfit for the Premier. ship), conduct which, if proved against him, must not only drive him from the Ministry, but banish him from society.  That Lord Durham is exceedingly angry, and exceedingly angry with just cause, nobody need doubt. The selfish weakness with which Ministers abandoned  him to save themselves, was one of their most contemptible acts; but in spite of the enthusiastic cheers for his Excellency, and the burning of Lord Brougham, and the denunciation of his false friends, the greatest possible benefits will-arise to Canada from his Excellencv's removal. •  We have received a letter from an influential and  extremely well-informed man—unfortunately written in terms too violent to be inserted—who describes the feeling of disgust which Lord Durham's conduct has excited amongst the Loyalists of Upper Canada, as something unquenchable. They feel themselves at once insulted and betrayed, and according to his view of affairs, the removal of Lord Durham was essential to the safety of the colony. In fact, we believe nobody is sorry for what has happened, except the Radical revolutionary party in America, and Mt. O'Connell's Ministry in London; and rely upon it, the one faction does not more deeply regret his departure than the other dreads his arriv The shameful \ indsor made falsehood of the Queen's having written to his Excellency to stay where he was, has been contradicted by authority, being equally decent and proper with that which we noticed a week or two since, touching another autograph epistle to the King of Naples about Lablache.