The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-29 00:00:00

GREAT PEDESTRIAN PERFORMANCR•

West, the Champion of English Pedestrians, started on
Friday last, at four o'clock in the afternoon, to walk the
extraordinary distance of nine miles and a half in ,me hour
and thirty minutes, en a quarter of a mile piece aground,
which was measured from the Olive Branch, East-street,
Paddington. One peculiar novelty in the match was, that
the distance was to be performed baelavards, and es
three o'clock was the time appointed vast numbers of per-
sons assembled before the pedestrian commenced his la-
bours, but very little betting took place ; indeed far the
last six years the pedestrian has increased his speed almost
every task, until it is not exactly known what is the
greatest distance he can perform. lie went off at a very
great pace, which he continued without mach apparent
fatigue, and accomplished the distance in one hour, 25
minutes, and 10 seconds, winning the match by one mi-
nute and 50 seconds. One of his umpires, a gentleman
at Kennington, afterwards made a match for him to pick
up 900 stones with his mouth, one yard apart, the dis-
tance being upwards of 21 miles, its three and a half suc-
cessive hours. To come off on Monday next, near Ken-
nington-cross ; 101. a-side was poated instanter, and the
remainder 101. aside on Saturday evening last, at the
Rising Sun, Kennington.

Miss ELLEN TREE joins the Covent-Garden
company this season, and will doubtless prove a most
valuable acqui,ition to it.

Melancholy to state, three little children were
burned to death by falling into a lime kiln at Kilgarvan,
county Kerry, last week. They were literally burned to
cinders.—Tipperary Free Press.

On Saturday evening last three young women
happened to meet together at the house of JAMES [Ma-
aocKs, in Edgeworth. One of the pai ty, in searching the
drawers for some piper to curl her hair with, found a
powder wrapped in a paper, and mistaking it for cre im of
tu•ter or magnesia, tasted it. Finding it palatable she in-
duced her companions to tiste also ; the consequence was,
that the whole of the three were taken suddenly ill, and one of
them named CROMPTON, aged 20 years, died on the follow-
ing mlrning. The powder, on being examined, proved to be
arsenic. An inquest was held on the body on Tuesday
last, and a ♦erdict in accordance with the circumstances
was returned.— Bolton Chronicle.

AN IMPOSTOR'S LAST HOAX.—Not long
ago, the wife of a poor man, of the name of JAMES Btrr-
TERFIELD, then residing at Southowram, made applica-
tion to the overseers of Halifax, where her husband belonged,
stating that he was dead, and requesting they would allow
her what was usual in such cases to bury him with, which
they accordingly did. flowerer, not long after, they dis-
covered she had imposed upon them, as her husband was
living and well ; and what makes it more singular is, a
short time ago the husband made his appearance before the
overseers for a similar allowance to inter his wife, which
latter did not turn out to he a hoax, for, on Tuesday last
he got spliced again to another at our parish church.—
Halifax Chronicle.

RECEPTION OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS
IN THE UNITED STATES.—CA REY and LEA, of Phila-
delphia, the republishers of the Nlraverley novels, get the
start of the market by means of the proof sheets, which
enables them to print off about 10,000 copies in two
volutreg, at eight shillings; subsequent editions being
soon coarsened and cheapened down to a dollar. On one
occasion, the ship with the last proof sheets, by some
delay, only reached America on the same day as another
which brought a complete copy of an English edition.
The publisher, who had already printed up to this missing
sheet, " was waiting, (says Captain HALL,) at New York
for the arrival of the packet, boarded her before the anchor
was gone, got hold of his prize, and galloped back to
Philadelphia. The unlucky sheet was straightway set up
in a dozen different printing offices, which were kept in
motion night and day, by relays of workmen, till the book
was not only completed for immediate sale on the spot, in
Philadelphia, hut, IT means of carriages posted on the
road, a couple of thousand copies were actually ready for
distribution at New York, within six-and-thirty hours
after the arrival of the ship ! Thus the missing pages had
first to travel ninety miles before they reached a printing
press; then to be worked off, stitched, packed, and re-
turned to New York, all in a day and a half, so as to sup-
ply the market before any of the publishers of that city
bad timW tc, Wog th 9 field,"•,...Edinbifrph Review.