12 OCTOBER 1839, Page 10

Who is to be Admiral Fleming's successor at Portsmouth? Is

this appointment also to be the reward of electioneering services: If Ministers are consistent, sonic active political partisan will be selected ; for Admiral Fleming had the place for no other reason, and has been promoted to Greenwich Hospital in virtue of such services and his con- nexion with the Minto family. By the way, to satisfy the Globe that there is a family connexion between the Flemings and the Elliots, we shall just state that Admiral Fleming is first cousin to Sir Charles Adam, who is Lord 3Iinto's brother-in-law. So that, together with the Plumridge appointment, "the family "have secured nearly all the best things in the Navy.