1 JULY 1865, Page 2

The borough elections, it is said, are to commence on

the 11th and to be finished about the 15th inst, to the great relief of political mankind, which is compelled to read the most colourless, meaning- less, milk-and-water string of addresses ever issued to electors. With very few exceptions they might all be condensed into two lithographed formulas, to be supplied from London at twopence a dozen, and warranted to offend or conciliate nobody. Will candidates never learn that, although jelly will break no bones, people dislike being bespattered with jelly ?