The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

GREAT FOOT RACE.—The foot race for 501. aside
between Butler and East, two well-known pedestrians, came
off yesterday at Hayes. In consequence of the presumed
superiority of Butler, his backers gave East five minutes'
start, in a distance of twenty miles, but notwithstanding
these great odds, Butler was the favourite in sporting cribs.
Both men had been in active training for the last month,
and considerable sums were bet at 5 to 4 on Butler ; but
in consequence of a report which had gained circulation on
Saturday night, that he had been taken ill, a change took
place, and Last enjoyed the favouritism at about the odds
above quoted. The men appeared at the twelfth mile-stone
On the Uxbridge road, to walk to the thirteenth and back, at
elittle
before two o'clock. Preliminaries having been
arranged,_mart East went away with his five minutes' start, at a
rattling speed,
interval by Butler, at an equal',
and was followedafter the stipulated
gained twenty if not superior pace, and lie
third miles, Yseconds in the first mile. In the second and
howeverbognt, he lost ground, but then, with slight
variations,
tenth rails had rend mend
again;
and at the end of the
need the five minutes' start to four.
East continued toopursue his course in capital style, and so
men
obvious was it to-
that with such matters that
Butler could not win, t was freely offered on East :
odds which increased in m4asaiiiiii stances to 6 and 7 to
In each succeeding mile E improved his advantage, and
at the end of the
the
milainilteler resigned, his oppo-
na-head of him. East
Dent being at the time nearl
order to claim, and
walked the remainder of the Zetance
minutes
completed the twenty miles in three hourinir
ten seconds. Butler, it was stated, was attacked with
wnli
cramp
the stomach two or three times during the race.
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Tea FORkIGN Mams.—The following notice was
ksued on Monday at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-
_s
" The next mails for Gibraltar Malta, Greece, the
lonia_
_Mends, Egypt, Ceylon, India and China, will be dis-
ItiTe4Zrarotatldlen.c.e on the morning of the 3d f February,
India, „id Southampton. By the overland mail to
next Marseilles, on the 7th February. West In-
--The
Havomuth,
New,
for the West Indies, Mexico, Hon-
en
thewmGrenada, Venezuela, and Madeira,
will be made up
dispatched by the Forth steamer; of 2d of February, to be
North America, Bermuda,
mail due February 7th. li'riatrat7,:vul Southampton. Next
and the United States, on the evening Halifax,
the 3d February,
petaltnifax, and Boston.
by the Cambria steamer, via Liverpool,
Next mail due, the Hibernia steamer,
by her
Buenos Ayres, Madeira.—Due on the 27th February Brazils,
Majesty's brig Express, at Falmouth. 'lhe nexlmtarY ai
be made up on the evening of the 4th of February.na la
The
will
mails for Sydney, New South Wales, Van Diemen's. Land,
and New Zealand, will be made up on the evening of Satur-
day next, the 31st instant, to be forwarded by the Abel
Gower, vid Gravesend."