25 MARCH 1837, Page 9

POSTSCRE PT.

SATURDAY NIGRT.

News has reached town, we understand, of the death of Dr. Butler, Bishop of Liehfie1,1 and Coventry.— Courier.

We fear that this news is too true. Dr. BUTLER has been seriously unwell, arid we know that his family end friends have been anxious oil his account for some time. On the Episcopal Bench there hies never been a more enlightened or less b'goted divine than Dr. BUTLER. He was for many years the Head Master of the Royal Free Grammar School at Shrewsbury ; the reputation of which he raised so high, that at Cambridge it was no discredit to be vanqnished by a " Shrewsbury man " in contests for the highest hottours. As a seholar Dr. literrzu stood preeminent. In Greek literature and criticism he had no rival since the death of PORSON and PAltR. Compared with Dr. BUTLER. BLOMFIELD was an empiric. But it was not merely as the editor of JESCHYLUS, and as a Grecian, that Bishop BUTLER ob- tained respect from all who knew him : be was a moat benevolent, kind-hearted, and liberal man in private life. His charities were con- stant, and in some instances munificent. He assisted the more needy of his pupils, not only with advice and information, lint with his purse, when they began to struggle with a college life. There are hundreds, now actively employed in various callings, who are indebted to Dr. BUTLER for any ennobling and honourable principle that may keep them in the right course. He did not treat his pupils as mere ma- chines for the enunciation of a.certain quantity of Greek and Latin: he never forgot that to his care was confided the education of no con- temptible portion of the rising generation who were destined to fulfil the duties of legislators, landlords, and merchants. His constant maxim may be given in the emphatic words of the Latin poet- " Summtim ermle nefas animant prreferre Et propter vitvm vivendi perderecausss."

In his charges when Archdeacon of Derby, and in his (we believe) so- litary Episcopal charge, may be discovered the mild, tolerant, philan- thropic spirit of the Christian clergyman. Elevation to almost the highest honour which a churchman could claim, made no difference its his feelings or conduct. Happy would it be for the Church if all who are exalted to her high places resembled the late SAMUEL BUTLER.