The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

ROTAL MARINES.

Lieutenant-Colonel John Hewes (1842), of the Ports.
mouth division, has retired on the full pay of his rank.
This gallant officer was First Lieutenant serving in the
Rainbow in action with the French frigate Nereide,
1810 ; was in boats at the capture of a Genoese pri-
vateer moored under a battery - was also present at the
attack on Leghorn ; and the reduction of Genoa, 1814.
By the retirement of Colonel Hewes the following officers
obtain promotion :
Brevet Major T. Wearing to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Hewes. This officer was Second Lieutenant, and
served in the Conqueror, 74, at Trafalgar, when he was
wounded. Gazetted 1805.

First Lieutenant P. Priest, to be Captain, vice Why-
lock, promoted. This officer was midshipman of the
Genoa at Navarino, when he was wounded.

Second Lieutenant J. Manger, to be First Lieutenant,
vice Priest.

First Lieutenant IL P. Lewin (1837), of the Ports-
mouth division, died last evening at his residence,.
Portsmouth.

PLYMOUTH, DEC. 19.—His Swedish Majesty's corvette
North Star, 20, Captain G. Hespelberg, arrived on the
18th, in twenty-eight days from New York. During
her passage she experienced some severe weather, and
shipped several heavy seas, one of which broke in aft,
entered her bread-room, and damaged her provisions.
To-day she was supplied with three tons of bread and
other necessaries. Her water was obtained from the
Royal William Victualling-yard at Stonehouse. She had
been on a cruise, and to-morrow will leave this for Fre-
derickstadt.

The schooner Queen has this week discharged at the
Royal William Victualling-yard 932 quarters of Indian
corn, making, with six other cargoes received there,
about 5,400 quarters, the whole of which is ground or is
being ground into meal for the destitute in Ireland and
Scotland. The mills are kept going night and day; two
gangs of men are employed, and in order that the master
miller may be always on the spot, he is furnished with a
bed in the mill-house. About 1,000 sacks of meal are
produced per week. The whole of the corn now in store
will be ground in a fortnight, previous to which it is ex-
pected other cargoes will arrive.
763 sacks of meal have been shipped by her Majesty's
steamer Stromboli ; 794 by her Majesty's store-ship
.IF,olus, 42; and 1,000 are to be shipped by her Majesty's
steamer Rhadamanthus, daily expected at this port.
These three parcels go to the Isle of Mull, where they
will be under the orders of the captain of her Majesty's
frigate Belvidere.
The steam-packet Shannon, Captain Moppett, the
cargo of which ignited on the sth instant, left this port
in ballast trim on the 11th for Falmouth, whence she
departed again yesterday morning for Dublin, where she
will be repaired at the extensive establishment of her
proprietors, the British and Irish Steam-packet Com-
pany. The Shannon, which is 153 feet long by 27 feet
broad, was originally built by Messrs Fletcher and Co.,
London, for about 44,0001. In the spring of 1845 she
was thoroughly repaired, and supplied with new boilers
and engines of 250-horse power, at a cost of 13,0001.
She has been employed on various services, but princi-
pally between London, Plymouth, Falmouth, and Dublin,
on which station she has run about 250 voyages, and
never experienced any casualty worth recording before
the spontaneous combustion of her cargo on the sth of
December.

TELEGRAPH ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—The
electric telegraph on the Midland Railway was opened
for public use on Friday, so that communication may
now be made to and from Leeds, Normanton, Macs-
borough, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Derby, Liecester,
Rugby, Burton, Tamwortb, Birmingham, Nottingham,
Newark, and Lincoln, at the following rates, namely:—
Under ten words, Id. per mile; above ten, and under
twenty, at lid. per mile; above twenty, and under
thirty, at 3d. per mile; and for every additional ten
words, one halfpenny per mile. A messenger, if re-
quired, may bo dispatched from any of the above sta-
tions, on foot, at Is. per mile; or if by postchaise, on a
reasonable remuneration. In case of any message fail-
ing through the defect of the instrument, or neglect of
the company's servants, the money will be returned.
Messages relating to luggage lost or mislaid by the
company's servants, will be sent free of charge.