29 JULY 1882, Page 3

Mr. Thomas Hughes, Q.C., has been made a County-Court Judge,—a

post for which he is eminently fit, being not only a well-trained lawyer, but a man singularly upright and courage- ous in judgment, and with the strongest possible love of justice. Through a life of much energy, Mr. Hughes has striven to be the interpreter of the best thoughts of statesmen to working- men and of the best thoughts of working-men to statesmen, and that is an effort which cannot possibly command as much worldly success as so difficult and so noble a function deserves. Nevertheless, Mr. Hughes has left his mark on his generation, a mark which we hope may be only deepened during the judicial career on which he now enters.