The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-17 00:00:00

SMALL-BEER CHRONICLES.

(From All the Year .Rozoid.)
In the second column of the Times advertisereent-sheet
appeared, the other day, these mysterious words, " Audi,
vidi. tace"—coupled with the announcement that a trust-
worthy personage was just about to start for the Continent
with a view to certain " private inquiries." The advertise-
ment was inserted by one Messrs. Pollaky and Co.
Now, here is a new state of things. The organised spy
system has sprung into existence quite recently. By the
advertisements isued from this office of Mr. Pollaky's, and
from another similar establishment kept by retired Inspec-
tor Field, you are invited to place in the hands tel these
genlemen any affair you want cleared up, entrusting the
particulars to them, relying on their secrecy, and on the
diligence they will show in serving you. But what. sort of
inquiries are those in which the ex-detectives are ready to
engage ? What sort of people are those who apply to
Messrs. Pollaky and Field for their secret services!
I wonder to what extent the establishments of these pur •
veyois of useful information 'are patronised by the public?
Of one thing I am quite sure—there are more men to be
seen standing about at the corners of streets than there used
to be. Are these men—they are generally seedy in their
attire, and in the habit of sucking small pieces of straw or
chewing the stacks of leaves to while away the time—are
these men the agents of Pollaky and Co., and for what are
they on the look-out ? For more things, depend on it, than
are dreamed of in our philosophy. When Mrs. Drinkwater
Dreggs gives two dinner-parties, ono following the other,
ail the guests who are invited to one of those festivals are
instantly seized with a firm conviction that the dinner to
which they are not askel is the distinguished one, while the
meal at which they are invited to figure is the second-rate
affair. Now, it is not too much to suppose that these suspi-
cious personages are in the habit of putting their difficulties
in the hands of Messrs Pollaky and Co. Away goes the
trustworthy emissary to Wilton-cresent. He plants himself
under the lamp-post, he observes what proportion the cabs
which drive up to Mrs. Dreggs's door bear to the private
carriages, he studies the appearance of the guests, and, be-
ing a shrewd individual, forms his own opinion as to their
rank in the social scale ; or, if unable to do this, perhaps he
will get into conversation with the waiter, who comes to
the door for a little air while the gentlemen are over
their wine, and from him learns exactly what sort ot com-
pany is being entertained within. With the information
he has gained, the trustworthy one returns to his employer,
and next morning the Seedy, mane, who were at the first
party, and who had the pleasure of meeting a society of
nobodies, who, for the most part, reached their destination
a cabs and flies, learn that, on the occasion ot the second
festival, there was a "regular swell turnout, with only one
cab, and that a Hansom ; and that the company comps ised,
among other distinguished pet sons, a baronet and his lady,
a dowager-countess, a genius, two members of parliament,
and consorts, and a cabinet minister." This knowledge
the Seedyrnans then take to their hearts, and batten thereon
to their souls' hurt, but with a certain malignant pleasure,
nevertheless.

Bank of England Return---Yesterday.

An Account, pursuant to
cap. 32, for the week ending
of July, 1b63

the Act 7th and Bth Victoria.
on Wednesday, the 15th day

ISSUE DET
otes issued

'ARTMENT.
Government Debt .£11,615,1C0
Other Securities 3.6340400
Gold Coin & Bullion 13,886,095
Silver Bullion

£28,536,095

£28,536,095
BANKING DEPARTMENT.
orietors' Capi- i Government Sem-
p i
al .............. £14,553,000 '1 rities (including
Rest . . ............ 3,277,029 Dead WeightAn-
Public Deposits n- nuityl £11,048,888
eluding Exche- 20,9.8633
quer, Savings' NOothtee: Securities ,
6,997 080
Banks, Commis- i Gold and Silver Si '
missioners of Na- i Coin -63,781
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
Orheunr t4ep) . .... ........ 1:,93g::
n'even Day and
other Bills ...... 655,98
£39,8 t 6,3
31. '
July 10,1863.
•

439,816,3F2
[A RSHALL Chief Cashier.

NOTiceBE punfollowing
art
Chicago .Tim led cs, which to the order
of General Burnside for the suppression of the paper. It
appeared in its Washington correspondence,inTO under date of
the 27th of May :--" No one who
sees Mr. Lincoln now
can fail to be struck with his
altered appearance as com-
, pared with his looks of two years
older, and the expressionf his face is ago.
He looks 10 years
o
care-
worn in the extreme. His
eye
haggard and
times
wityhe is restless and is constantly
wandering, at most
in a manner indicative of a vacant expression, at others
the demeanour
of a man whoserest is
and to whose pillow tranquil broken by remorse,
sleep is a stranger. God
knows, he has done enouh to cause him a lifetime of re-
morse. But he has been g d
knowing the Weakneeeenmda
irresolution
victim of the men who,
h of his character,
placed him where he is in order
direct his
,actions, make
hit at they might guide and
andhim the instrument to work
their will. T 1
—e is, and hasbeen nothing more
thanH the servant of Ben. Wade, Chandler,ha,
Horace Greeley. He realizes the fact now, Sumner,' an
and strives to
emancipate himself from their malign influence, but in vain.
' I: hey compelled him to issue his emancipation proclamation;
to dismiss Generals M'Clellan,. Sumner, l'orti r, and
Franklin from the army; to appoint the butcher of Fre-
dericksburg to supplant M'Clellan ; to place the gallant
army of the Potomacunderthehead of the boasting Hooker.
They have compelled him to keep Hooker in command of
that army when the whole country knows that by doing so
its efficiency is entirely destroyed. And they instigated the
infaulow proceedings against Mr. Vallandignam, and com-
pelled the President to approve them and sustain Burnside.
Such are the men who control the destinies of this once free
Republic I"
MAILS FOR MEXICO, &e.—After the let of
August next, the rates of postage upon letters to Cuba and
Mexico, by the French packets leaving St. Nazaire on the
16th of each montt,,, will be ls. for each letter not exceeding
fez., and ls. for each additional loz., which must be paid in
advance.
The summary of the Melbourne Argus of the 23th
of May says :
" The business accomplished by the Parliament of Vic-
toria during the month has been small in amount. The
Legislative Council have laboured with some diligence,
but the results have not gone beyond the advancement
by a few stages of the measures submitted to them. The
Electoral Act Amendment Bill, the Local Governmtent Bill,
and the Customs Laws Amendment Bill have PaB.ed
through committee; and the Immigration Bill, the Reforma-
tory Schools Bill, and the Youthful Offenders Bill have
been read a second time. The Immigration bill will again
be con,idertd in committee. Some members have tann
objection to the composition of the advising body sitting i 1
London proposed to be created by the bill, and over thedis
bone there has been considerable skirimishing. It is hop
the
,
[ however, that the information brought by last mail, al to
[ formation of a Victorian Emigration Society in London
) (such as the Government contemplates), and the desire that
i has grown up among the Lancashire people to seek Austra-
lian shores, will induce a majority of the Council to fall in
with the Vie Wt. of the Ministry and the Lower House. By
L the passage of the bill, a sum of about £25,000, now lying
in the Treasury fur immigration purposes, would be platA,
at the disposal of the Agent-General.