A meeting in favour of erecting a memorial at Rugby
to the late Judge Hughes was held on Wednesday in the Jerusalem Chamber at Westminster, Dean Bradley in the chair. The Dean delivered a cordial and well-deserved eulogium on the great Rugbeian. It was proposed to erect a permanent memorial to Mr. Hughes at Rugby, and that the subscription-list should be opened to all his friends and admirers whether Rugbeians or not. This proposal was not approved by Lord Davey, who wished to limit the subscription-list absolutely to Rugheians, —a curious proposal, for which he assigned no intelligible reason. Fortunately, this suggestion was not acceptable to the meeting, and it was determined that a life-sized statue should be erected to Judge Hughes, and that all his friends should be permitted to contribute to it. Mr. Hughes was an Englishman first, though he was also an enthusiastic and distinguished Rugbeian.
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