The Sun. — 1845-10-01 (London, England)

FORGERY AND FRAUD.  THE AUTOBIC.;GRAPHY and CORRESPONDENCE 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 accession of his son, and one of the first of his great arbitrary ordinances, the levying of ship-money. Speaking of that illegal impost, Sir D'Ewes, who was strongly oped to the Established Church on account of its leaning 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 Saturday, 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 employment—but this he seldom had. In winter, when work is slaCk and expenses much increased, the employ 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 average, 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 tasteful 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.