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London, England, 1845-10-01 00:00:00

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three children with him, and told us, with a truly thank-
ful air, that he had at length escaped from New York,
and was going to Herkimer county, where he owned a
little patch of land, and could raise his own potatoes.
Eilviable fortune, indeed ! lie said he had tried it faith-

FORGERY AND FRAUD.

THE AUTOBIC.;GRAPHY and CORRESPON-
DENCE of Sir SIMONDS D'EIVES, Bait.
_ _

daring the Reigns of Janes 1. and Cita: les 1. 2 Trots,
These volumes contain a great deal of gossip about
the D'Ewes fairdly, of little or no interest to the
_general reader ; but this is interspersed with occasional
narratives of the public events of the day, including the
foolish visit of " Baby Charles and Steente" to the Court
,if Spain, the death of the modern Solomon, the acces-
sion of his son, and one of the first of his great arbi-
trary ordinances, the levying of ship-money. Speaking
of that illegal impost, Sir D'Ewes, who was strongly op-
ed to the Established Church on account of its lean-
ing towards Popery, and at the same time favourable to
the reigning dynasty, says—" At home the liberty of
the subjects of England received the most deadly and
fatal blow it had been sensible of in five hundred years
last past; for writs were isaied the summer foregoing to
all the sheriffs of England to levy great sums of money
in all the counties of the same kingdom and Wales,
under pretext and colour to provide ships for the defence
of the kingdom, although we were now in peace with all
the world, and the royal fleet was never stronger or in
better case. In all my life I never saw so many sad
faces in England as this new taxation, called ship-money,
occasioned." The author, however, did not live to see
the end of that rising against the Crown, of which this
was one of the great causes. The following is the
account of the murder of Villiers. Most of our readers
are aware that the Duke had gone clown to Portsmouth
to superintend the fleet which was collected at that place
for the relief and victualling of Rochelle:—
" Some of his friends had advised him, how generally he
was hated in England, and how needful it would be for his
greater safety to wear some coat of mail or some other secret
armour : which the Duke slighting, said, ' It needs not;
there are no Roman spirits left.' August 231, being Satur-
day, the Duke having eaten his breakfast between eight and
nine o'clock in the morning, in one Mr. Mason's house in
Portsmouth, was then Misting away to the King,
who lay at Reswick, some five miles distant, to
have some speedy conference with him. Being come to the
further part of the entry leading out of the parlour into the

fully for years—worked early and late—half clad and
half fed his family, and almost ruined his own health—
in the hope that something would turn up. But he had
given it up. He us: d to got 2s. 6d. a pair for making
ladies' gaiter-boots, and said this was the usual price
paid for good second•rate work. Ho lived in a sort of
shed, in the rear of a wooden-house, and paid for his
room four dollars a month. He could make from eight
to ten pArs of gaiters in a week, if he had steady em-
ployment—but this he seldom had. In winter, when
work is slaCk and expenses much increased, the em-
ploy ors come and offer even lower prices—and they are
compelled to accept them. Oh, he said he was glad to
think he was already so far from that "hard-hearted
city."
There are often several hundred journeymen in New
York who have no regular situations, and of those who
have work, a great number do not receive, on the aver-
age, over three and a half and four dollars per week.
How they live we have attempted to show. _ _ _

Brut, cif course, there are afew very skilful and taste-
ful workmen who get more. They are employed on the
choicest work, and receive for the first quality of ladies'
gaiters four or five shillings per pair. A man makes of
these a pair in a day. A skin of French patent leather
costs $2,50, and will cut six or seven pairs of foxings.
The Satin Franclise costs eleven shillings per yard,
which cuts three pairs ; the binding and closing costs
fifty cents, or five shillings per pair—and the boots are
sold to the customers for 3. This, of course, relates
to the finest kind of custom-work.

ROMANCE IN THE ALMS-HOUSES.

hall of the house, he had there— some conference with Sir
Thomas Frier, Ent., a colonel, and stooping down in taking
his leave of him, John Felton, a gentleman, having watched
his opportunity, thrust a long knife with a white haft he had
secretly about him with great strength and violence into his
breast, under his left pap, cutting the diaphragm and lungs,
and piercing the very heart itself. The Duke, having re-
ceived the stroke, instantly clapping his right hand on his
sword-hilt, cried out, 'God's woundsl the villain bath killed
me.' Some report his last words otherwise, little differing
for substance from these: and it might have been wished
that his end had not been so sudden, nor his last ...words mixed
with so impious an expression. He was attended by many
noblemen and leaders, yet none could see or prevent the
stroke. His Duchess and the Countess of Anglesey, the Rife
of Christopher Villiers, Earl of Anglesey, his younger
brother, being in an upper room, and hearing the noise in the
hall, into which they had carried the Duke, ran presently to
a gallery that looked down into it, and there beholding the
Duke's blood gush out abundantly from his breast, nose, and
mouth (with which his speech after those his first words had
been immediately stopped), they broke out into pitiful out-
cries, and raised, great lamentation. He pulled out the knife
. _

hitt4elf, and being carried by his servants unto the table that
stood in the same hall, hating struggled with death near
upon a quarter of an hour, at length he gave up the ghost
about ten of the clock ie same forenoon, and lay a long
time after he was dead upon the hall table there. Mr.
Felton, that gave him the deadly wound, was a gentleman
of a very ancient family of gentry in Suffolk, very valorous;
and of a stout spirit."
The depraved state of the Church, which may be re-
garded as another cause of the excitement against the
Government, is well described in the subjoined para-
graph. It is true to the letter, and it is pairful to add
that the description would answer very well for the
present day. The followers of Laud and the Puseyites
are of the same stamp:—

" I can honour and esteem a virtuous or learnei Papist,
who, being educated in that religion, supposeth it to be the
truth. But for men to call themselves Protestants, as Bishop
Laud, Bishop Wren, and their wicked adherents, to swallow
up the preferments of our Church, to inveigh against Popery
in word only, and in the main to project and plot the ruin of
the truth and Gospel, to maintain and publish the most gross
and Actilent errors of the Romish synagogue, to cause God's
:lay to be profaned, his public service to be poisoned by
idolatry and superstition, his faithful and painful ministers to
be censured, suspended, deprived, and exiled, and to threaten
a speedy ruin to the power of godliness,—this my soul abhors
as the highest step of wickedness and of prevarication against
God and his honour. I cannot but account the Pope, the
Cardinals, and Jesuits themselves saints, in comparison of
these men. For as a few traitors within a besieged city are
of a greater danger for the ruin of it than a whole army
without, so doubtless what Theodore Beza saith of the

Pseudo-Lutherans of Germany is true of these men, that
they do no less impudently and furiously weaken and under-
mine the Gospel of truth, than if they were hired by the Pope
himself at great rates."

SURGICAL AND PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS
ON THE DISEASES OF THE HUMAN FOOT;

with Instructions for their Treatment. To which is
added, Advice on the Management of the Hand. By
John Eisenberg, author of "Practical Expositiin of the
Human Foot.' _ _

Mr. Eisenberg has been long known to the public as
a skilful and scientific chiropoist. His experience in
the treatment of diseases of the feet has been extensive,
and he has here presented us with the result of that ex-
perience, in a clear and lucid treatise, which all who read
can understand, and which is written with an accuracy

THE SVN, LONDON, WEDNFADAY moRNING, OCTOBER 1, 1845.

TITESDA Y NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
2IASI'ER, OF THE HORSE'S OFFICE, Slur. 27, 1845.
The Q,-,een has been graciously- pleasei to appoint the
Hon. W. F. Forbes to be Page
_of Honour to her Majesty,
vice Wilson.

Commis.:‘;.ons by the Lord-Lieutenant of Durham.
R. L. Euz-tres, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant ; G. Hud-
son al , to be ditto, Sept. 19.
dommission by the Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland.
Northuraberland Militia—C. A. Monck, Esq., to be Cap-
tain, vice Surtees, deceased, Aug. 20.

COIIII.IIISSiOII by the Lord Lieutenant of Somerretsbire.
West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry--W. H.
S. George, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Browne, promoted,
Aug. L'2.

WITITEHALL, AUGUST 19.
The Right Honourable Sir Nicholas Conyngham
Tyuda7, Knt., Lord Chief 'Justice of her Majesty's
Court of Common Pleas, has appointed Henry
Kent Norris, of Devizes, in the county of Wilts,
Gent., to be one of the I'erpetual Commissioners for
taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed
by marcied women, under the Act passed for the Abolition
of fine i and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple
:mocks of assurance, in and for the county of Wilts.

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