Lord Charles Beresford has been to-day elected unopposed as member of Parliament for Woolwich in the place of Colonel Hughes, V.D. The Admiral's personal popularity is so great, and he is moreover so independent a conservative that the Liberals wisely decided not to set up a candidate against him. He will be welcomed back to the House by "li parties, for he is liked even by the Irish Nationa' lists as much as an Irish loyalist could be liked by them; but when ther his return is relished by the representatives of the Admiralty in Parliament is another matter. By the way, Colonel Hughes, who is now retiring from public life, can claim a remarkable record. For about half a century he had been closely connected with neatly all the public bodies in Woolwich; he was for many years a member of the old Metro-Politan Board of, Works, and then of the don School Board; and if his periods of service on various public bodies had been consecutive instead of in many cases, concurrent, they would have totalled up to somewhere about two hundred years.
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