The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1854-06-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MICHAEL'S. JUNE 2.—sixteen boodles of yellow metal bars have been fished up from the wreck of the Lumley, from Liverpool fir Richibucto, wrecked on Delgada Point, May 19.  Rtberpooi #itanban.  To render the parallel complete, only one character seemed wanting in the eventful drama—that was the appearance of a DEMOSTHENES, to expose and denounce the tricks and artifices of the usurper; the place of the missing orator was supplied on Monday evening in the House of Lords, and on that occasion Lord LYNDHURST gave an exposition of the tortuous and selfish policy of Russia, which the Athenian orator might well have been proud to acknowledge. • It has seldom, if ever, fallen to the lot of any ministry to have its personnel so frequently reviewed, so singularly shuffled, and so oddly complimented and commented on, as that over which the noble Earl of ABERDEEN ostensibly presides. On Monday evening, Mr. STRUTT enlightened the House of Commons on the singularity of the circumstances under which he had found the Duchy of Lancaster pushed under him like a joint-stool, and withdrawn with as little ceremony as is displayed by a band of rash and untutored schoolboys when breaking up for the holidays. In doing this, he exonerated his quondam colleagues from any charge of false delicacy, and in the simple earnestness of his unpretending narrative, reminded one forcibly of the gentlemanlike consideration which induced Lord J. RUSSELL, a session or two ago, to propound a scheme of law reform in the House of Commons, without intimating to his friend and colleague, the then LORD CHANCELLOR, that such a measure was in contemplation : and also forcibly suggesting the extrusion of Lord PALMERSTON from office. In this instance, however, Mr. STRUTT, not being a political Samson, he did not, like the noble member for Tiverton, pull the ministerial house of cards about the ears of his ungrateful patrons. Another episode in the " happy family" history of the ministry of "all the talents" was given to the world the other day by Sir GEORGE GREY, from the hustings at Morpeth. According to the Northumbrian baronet, on performing the office of what is vulgarly called "counting noses," the ministers found they possessed all the "talents" but one, and that he alone was possessed of the desiderated " gift." He was, of course, immediately applied to, but, wearied with the cares, and surfeited with the sweets of office, he showed the Earl of ABERDEEN that "he was the member would say him nay." Time wore on, the rebuff was forgotten, and the truant "talent" only remembered, and lo! Sir GEORGE was again solicited, and, like CMSAR, he again refused ; but despairing Prime Ministers and inconsolable administrators are not to be shaken off, so the worthy baronet was again entreated ; but this time, perceiving that his woers were nearly desperate, he listened to the suit, and was won by the syren strains. What might have happened, if he had not yielded, it is fearful to contemplate. The ministry might have committed—no, it surely would not have done that—suicide is so dreadful an alternative. Sir GEORGE had declined the soft persuasion twice, had he done so again, it is somewhat fearful to contemplate the consequences. He might not have been asked a fourth time. How singularly are the gifts of fortune distributed, even to a "coalition cabinet !" Here we find that, while pining under the coquettish absence of Sir GEORGE'S prestige, they had yet enough and to spare, although it is evident from the " plain unvarnished tale" of Mr. STRUTT, they had less difficulty in being "off with the old love" than they experienced in being `ion with the new." I last week made allusion to the snappishness evinced by the noble