to 6pettator, June 26th, 1852 The interest of the impending
elections is far from engros- sing the whole of the public mind. The restlessly active cut out for themselves work—half-business half-pleasure, or half- political half-personal, which has little concern with the elections. The week now ending has witnessed a splendid Commemoration at Oxford; a crowded floricultural show in the Regent's Park; a meeting of the Society for Improving the Dwellings of the Labouring Classes; a--grand dinner of the Sheriffs of Middlesex; a meeting of the Law Refogn Society; and a bitter reciprocal pelting of each other with mud by a ci- devant Romish priest converted to Protestantism and a ci-devant Anglican clergyman converted to Romanism, in the Court of Queen's Bench. Each of these fetes or movements has been to great numbers the most important object of the moment; and if society were carefully analysed, it would be found com- posed of an infinite number of small circles each entirely absorbed in cares, pleasures, and objects equally remote from the mighty political struggles of the day.
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