The Mr. Baring who has received an appointment on the
staff of the Governor-General of Canada, is not, as stated by the Standard a son of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but is a nephew of the Governor-General, and the son of the late Mr. W. Baring. The fine patriotic lamentation of the Standard over the breach of the Army i regulations s therefore in vain, and turns out to be an empty exhibition of Tory spleen.—Globe. [The Standard fairly remarks, that as far as the conduct of Government is concerned, it matters little whether En- sign Baring is the son of the Chancellor of the Exchequer or Mr. Thomson's nephew. "The fact that this young gentleman has been appointed to a Staff situation, although he only entered the service five months ago, in the teeth of one of the regulations of the Army, which provides that subaltern officer shall not be considered eligible to hold the appointment of Aide-de-camp until he has been present with his regiment at least two years' is undoubted."]
It is now some months since Captain Pooley, R.E., was appointed by the No-Patronage Government, at a salary of 400/. per annum, as a per- manent attache to our dockyard, to superintend the repairs of docks, slips, sea-walls, &c. of the yard; which duty had, up to that period, been always effectually performed by one of the foremen of the yard, at a salary of 230/. It unfortunately happened that the gallant officer, nearly ever since his appointment, has been so afflicted as to be unable to attend in the dockyard ; which, however, has been no detriment to the service, every thing having still gone on as heretofore. Now, how- ever, the No. Patronage Government have improved upon the former achievement, having actually sent another gallant officer as a temporary
resident, to help Captain Pooley to do nothing."—llitalpshite Advertiser.
Another of the Elliots has been provided for. Admiral the Honour- able Charles Elphinstone Fleming, cousin to Sir Charles Adam, half brother to Lord Elphinstone, and Commander in Chief at Portsmouth, has been appointed to the Governorship of Greenwich Hospital. It has hitherto been the practice to make this appointment the reward for long and distinguished services; but those are considerations which her Majesty's Government never allow to influence them in the distribution of their patronage. If, however, Admiral Fleming has seen no ser- vice at sea (and we are assured he never had the good fbrtune to take part in a battle in his life,) he possesses what in the eyes of Lord Mel- bourne and his associates constitutes a much stronger claim to reward; he has been an active supporter of Whig principles for many years ; and recently assisted to stay the torrent of public indignation against Ministers for their neglect of the British navy, by describing the Rus- sian fleet as a "pasteboard fleet." This clever sally has been quoted on all occasions by Ministers as a proof that no precaution was neces- sary against such an antagagonist ; and Admiral Fleming was forthwith rewarded by the naval command at Portsmouth, hav- ing previously held those of Sheerness and the West Indies. This was not deemed compensation enough for so distinguished an
officer. He has accordingly been appointed to a situation where his
tenure is more secure than it is likely to have been at Portsmouth. How worthy a successor of the gallant veteran in whose arms Nelson breathed his last, and who shared with hint the most glorious of his triumphs, is Admiral Fleming It would seem as though every suc- ceeding appointment of the Whigs were destined to exceed in corrupt favouritism its predecessor. Of all their recent performances, however, this is the most disgusting and the most corrupt. We predicted that Greenwich Hospital was too good a thing to be allowed to pass out of the Elliot family, and our anticipations have not been disappointed. Perhaps the confidence which prevented Sir Charles Adam from ap- propriating the appointment to himself was ill-judged ; at all events, an Elliot, and an active supporter of Ministers, has been provided for.— Standard.
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