The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-02 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Detachments of Recruits arrived in town, yesterday front Co-
ventry, on route to join their respective Regiments sod Depots.
A Detachment belonging to the East India Company's Service,
received orders to embark, yesterday, at, Billingsgate, for Graves-
end, on route to Chatham.

A large Detachment of Irish Rearuits arrived in town, Wed-
ueaday morning, from *idol, ott route to join their respective
Battalions and Corps.

Ths sense entertained by the Gentlemen of Blackburn, of
Captain Bray, and the Officers and 'Troop of his Majesty's lat
Regiment of Dragoon Guards 'utalf-.r his command, will appear in
the folloTing C4'wespondence, which we have great pleasure in
communicating to the public:--

BLACKBURN, MAY 2tl

At a Pub Meeting,- held at the SessitmA' Rtioni, in Mack-
burn, on Thursday, the 2bth of May, 1826, it was unanimously
resolved, . •

'4-That the Thauks of this Meeting be given to Captain Bray,
and, the (Wen of the lot Dragoon Guards, fin• their active and
humane conduct on the 24th of April Wt..
(Signed) " T. W. 'WHITTAKER, Chairman.
" To Capt.. Bray, lit Dragoon Guards, Hotel, Blackburn."

"hotel, Blackburn, May 26, It3t6h
"" Sin,-4 have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, con-
veying to me .the very flattering approbation of, the Committee,
fur the conduct of the Troop of the Ist Dragoon Guards, employed
in tide .town on the gl•th ult.. In requesting. that you will have
the goodness to assure the gentlemen of the Committee how highly
we appreciate to great au honour, we beg that you will alto add
the plouture we feel in having acted,. upon the painful occasion
alluded to, in a manner that has given satisfaCtion to so respecta-
ble a body as that to which your letter refers.
• I have the honour to he, Sir, your most obedient servant,

" GEORGE BRAY, Captain Ist Magoon Guards,
" To the Rey. J. W. Whittaker, Rte. Blackburn."

SCOTCHPLURALITIES.

This question has at last been .determined in favour of the
union of certain offices in the persona, of Churchmen; and con-
sidering the pay and precedents of the establishment, as well
as the constitution of the Assembly itself, it would he difficult
to say that the decision is either very surprising or very erro-
neous.
This is a matter, we are persuaded. much fitter for Ewing ad-
judged by private consciences and private talents, than by any
large ecclesiastical enactments. The great cu, se of pluralism
—the plurality of pulpiti—no* is, and we are sure ever will
be, sufficiently removed from the Church of Scotland. Her re-
wards must always be paid much less in silver or in gold, than
in parochial consideration and regard. Whatsoever number ut
pluralities the may admit of, we are assured that they never can
become, as in some other quarters, either the property or the
occasion of ignorance end inactivity ; 'but are, in fact, the prices
of superior, talent and additional exertion. We are rather de-
sirous, therefore, to let every man do as much as he is able.
Let the persons who think they can do more than the Church
,requires, enlarge, as far as possible, their exertions. Let those
who believe themselves to be feebler, confine their duties in pro-
portion to their capacity. The care, therefore, should be, not
to annihilate the possibility of unions,. but to regulate, as far .as
we are chic, their direction.

The fact is, that a great Churchman, must be a great man in
twenty other capacities. It is very well to legislate for little or
greedy minds, but it is vain to think of enthralling a Splendid
and buoyant spirit. Genius will out.-. If we refuse to bear it
Rom. our chairs, it will follow us into our ,closets. If we do nut
let it'lecture, it will print. In respect to it, time and toil stand
in the inverse order of common minds. Leisure expands, and
labour diminishes before them. The hindrance, besides, could
do so good. A man does not become a. better preacher, because
we have it in our power to force him to he &worse metaphysician.
....,-.9enteh Paper.

ROE'S CORAL BANK, in theiA" YofBENO AT

(From the Asiatic Journal.)

TTLY 31, 181 Zr.

In the Henry, bound from Penang to Calcutta, at ti r. at.,
going at the rate of two miles per hour, saw the rocks under the
ship's bottom ; soutulvd, and had ground 8i fathoms, then 10,
12, 15, and 20 fathoms, and afterwards no ground with 80 fa-
thoms of line. I made he bank, by this day's observation, in la-

titude 9. b 9. North, and in longitude 91. i. bO. East, by deed
reckoning, having no chronometer on board. Although the
evening was clear, and we were in the latitude of the high island
of St,. Matthew's, no land was discernible from the mast-head.
We were half an hour going over the ba►ik, which makes it about
a mile in extent north and south.

Stile.; the period ittate4l above, I have frequently passed here.
about, without being able to re-discover the bank, until the. 25th
•of July, 1825, in the ship Roburts, bound from Rangoon to
Madras, steering about three miles per hour, at 7
SAW the roeks under time ship's bottom ; immediately put the helm
down, and had ground 10 fathoms whilst. in stays : iu standing
bark to the northward, to get off the bank, had again 10 fathoms,
then no ground with the hand lead ; and by the time the deep sea
lead was ready, we were in deep water. Lay this day's observie
Lion at noon, I made the northern edge of the bank, in latitude
10. 2. North, and in longitude 96. 4h. East, by the chronometer ;
but this i 3 probably five wiles too far to the eastward, and I think
this bank lies in latitude 10.2. North, longitude 116.40. East, or
thereabout ; and it bears west about 75 miles from the Island of
St. Andrew.

(Signed) RICHARD A. J. ROE.

THE NUMBER FIVE.

This number, in China, is highly regarded. The elements,
according to the Chinese, are five in number : trater, fire, wood,
metal, and earth. The relations amongst human beings are five,
vix. a prince and minister, a father and Hon, elder and younger
brother‘ husband and wife, friends. The constant virturs'are
live : benevolence, koitice, propriety,. knowledge, and truth,
There are five ranks of nobility, denominated hung, how, pih, be,
and man_The compass has five divisions east, south, west,

north, and centre. Tk►e tastes are live : sour, sweet, bitter, acrid,
salt. The colours are five: azure, yellow, carnation, white, black.
The huma►► viscera consist of five ; liver, heart, lungs, kidneys,
and stomach. The organs of sense are live, namely, the ears, the
eyes, the mouth, the nose, and the eye-brows. A. Chinese writer
has given a humorous dialogue between these organs : the mouth
complains of the nose being placed too near it, and above it ; the
nose defends its right, by alleging that, but for it, the month
might eat ordure ; the nose complains of the eyes being placed over
it ; the eyes reply, but that for them the nose might be broken
aga►nst unseen objects.
The ancient Greeks conceived there was some peculiar mystery
in the nu►nber

five.

On Tuesday last at Woolwich Warren, a field-piece,
whilA under proof, burst at the breech, and a fragment struck
the Alert pleasure-boat, thee► lying at a considerable distance,
and wl►ich had been hired by a Mr. Hollingsworth, on a party of
pleasure; it went through the tarpaulin, the hatchways, and the
bedding in one of the births, and knocked a hide in the side, which
would have immediately sunk her, had there not been two boats
on the spot %Ajar brought her ashore there were five gentle-
men on board at the time, who were landed by Nelson, the water
bailiff; unhurt.
Wednesday morning several children, taking advan-
tage of tho absence of the labourers employed at Mr. Alderman
rUtull'edr,
Thames-street, who had gone to their breakfast, wereplaying with
Thompson's iron► factory, situatould:hsythte,tvhietisu'tiwil:fgaktert;iisetildtigeoc:iliteremoved
some heavy scales, supported by three stout iron bars, placed in a
residing
triangular• form. Ihdortunately ttwc► little girls got into one, and
a tine boy, about nine years of age, the son of Goodman, the
in Cannon-street, and
oantalre:isgostiklatieolpOeft Ott\ letting
Ohl fltlt°‘Tkvuinis li.do'ausu nen i and the whole weight of
the beam fell upon the boy's head, who was instantly deprived of
life., A gentleman belonging to the wharf conveyed him in his
upoit examination found the forehead completely crushed. Tho,
two giai very narrprr•ly escaped destruction,
arms to fit►•. Price, the surgeon,

BPO U.TI N NTELLIGENCE.

" THE GENERAL."

We yesterday published a Letter from Mr. A. Farquharson,
flatly contradicting the statement which appeared in oar Journal
of the preceding day, announcing that Mr. F. had paid his bets
on the Greneral,- and it is a matter of no small regret to us, 6414
in common with our contemporaries, we should have been led
into so unfortunate au error. We are told that the mis-statement
arose from misapprehension, and we sincerely trust that this has
been the case ; but in the eyes of the sporting world the subject
is one of no small importance, and it •now appears that it has
been submitted, to .the grave consideration of the Jockey Club.
This body assembled on Wednesday and yesterday, at the Claren.
don Itotel, at one o'clock,. when Mr. Farqulianion appeared be-
fore them to substantiate the charge which he had made at Tat-
tersall's. 'Strong evidence-Was adduced in support of his anspi.
cions, that there was "something rotten in the state of Den-
mark," and, after leng deliberations, an adjournment took place
till this day, when the investigation is to be.resauned. There
are, of course, two,sides to every question, and it would be un-
fair to come to any conclusion, until. all the patties have been
heard ; we shall not, therefore, venture a surmise as to the pro-,
blade decision to which the, Club may come. At present, it is
rumoured that the General looha black. We hope, for the cake
of the Vol, the explanations will be satisfactory, and that no-,
thing will come out calculated to shake that honourable couli
dense on which the betting circles met neesesarily,rely. We
.have heard, upon pretty good k. authority, that
,the General, a
though entered in the name of Mr. Thornhill, wits,' in point of
Aiwt, rt partnership concern. We have been told the. names of
the Firm, but at present think it would. be .unfair to be more
explicit in our explanation. It. is, hitt proper to add, that the
great hulk of the betting men have paid, and among them soma
individuals of the higheit rank ; how far the decision of the
Jockey Club may affect those or future payments remains to be
proved. In all events, we are satisfied, that the venerable
tribu-
nal, to which the matter has been referred, will, for their own
sakes, as well as for the sake of Mr. Thornhill, the Turf, and
the public in general, explicitly state their opinion on the cha-
racter of the transaction.