The Sun.
London, England, 1815-11-25 00:00:00

PEDESTRIANISM.

Mr. STOKES, at Bristol, continues to walk fifty
miles a-day to the -great benefit of the adjoining,
tavern, an:l the delight of beholders: EATON, a
Blackheath, was-sore-footed yesterday, but still
appears confident that lie shall be able to defy
sleep for a few hundred hours longer t 'FUME ,
who lately failed at Rochester, is to start-with his
son a sort of ride and tie mantels, near the Roebuck
Ion; at Maidstone, to go 1200 miles in 20 days.
All these wonders are to be done, if possible, in
the year eighteen hawked and fit'teen !I !
EXCELLENT AND EVEN MATCH !—A curious
wager was decided on Saturday the llth inst. on
the road leading from Holbeach to Spalding. A'
man of the name of WALTON, an inhabitant of
Weston, andertook for a bct of I/. to run or walk
17 miles
_in two hours and a half, and also for a
farther bet of It. to make it up 18 miles in the
time. He started at the 104th mile-Stone, in the
parish of Weston, precisely at half-past fig-ht
o'clock in the morning, and a boy was placed at
the 103 d mile-stone, in the same parish, with'nine
cards in his hand, vc.ll;eli WALTON was to fetch
singly and deliver to a man stationed at the place
of starting. The first card was delivered in 13
minutes, the second at the end of 1., *minutes
more, the third in 16, the fourth in 17, making
eight miles in one hour and one minute. Bets
then were in favour of the performance. The
journey for the fifth card took 17 minutes, the
sixth 18 minutes (betting even), the seventh 20
minutes (bets two to cure against him for the 18
mile's), the eighth took up 20 minutes, and the
single mile, to fetch the ninth card, 111 minutes,
Which completed the time given within 21 mi-
nutes, and the poor fellow gave up the contest,
winning one pound Had losing the other, and hav-
ing all his labour for his pains, as well as a good
sweat, nal a lecture from his fair rib, for having
made such a match to the injury of his health and
constitution.

DRURY-4ANE THEATRE.-The new Comedy of
117tere to find a Friend was attended last flight by
almost as numerous an audience as on its first
appearance, and was fully confirmed in public fa-
vour. It• is, indeed, a ♦ery agreeable and affecting
dramatic. .melane of melancholy and mirth, and
receiving all possible justice from the Performers,
among whom we yesterday forgot to notice the
merit of OkBERR Y. The piece was judiciously
retrenched in several of the scenes.
The Blundering Chroniclein Plays—in Poli-
tics. It praises MU NDEN for his " touching' pa-
thOs" in the new Comedy last night ; in which
MU‘NDEN does not play, though DowToN. does.
JolvEs, of Covent-Garden Theatre, has been for
some time seriously indisposed, but is now reco-
yeriug, though slowly. •
Coors•,, of Drury-Lane Theatre, is gone to per-
form at Bath.

ASUE renews his Concerts, it seems, at Bath
in the ensuing season. , He and his musical fa-
tuity have beets very successful in Ireland.
It is hinted that the Office of City Poet Laureate
is about to be re-established. The Common Clerk
and the Crier to-boot, have &Claret( that they are
not competent to furnish the puffs for the new
Magistracy in the Morning Papers. We have a
long one to-day about an inspection of the Watch-
houses.

The " British Nobleman's" colt Letter-Writer
(lid not ran at the late races at Nenilly. -lhas
been lame, ever since the Battle of Waterloo!