An evening paper of yeste...
An evening paper of yesterday says-" Dr. Bt,c,255, the late Bishop of Chichester, was nearly the last of the Episcopal Bench whose elevation was the result of dis- tinguishcd learning: lie was once the friend of HORNE TooKe." This is a curious paragraph. 'Vas the proof of Dr. BucKvESB's " distiuguished learning" his intimacy with Mr. H. TOOKE ? If not, 'what other testimonies exist of that learning, and did he owe nothing to the Richmond family? But, according to this statement, BUCKNER beitig nearly the last whoselearning raised hira to the Bench,what are the merits which have raised nearly all the rest? Was net PORTRETs raised by his talents, such as they were? And the infinutely greater PALEY Tepelled from the Bench by his independence ? But PALEY would have been a Bishop, and an Archbishop too, if lie bad been a time-server WATSON, though made a poor Bishop, got no farther ad- vanicement: he was not only not a time-server, but a mnan of a turbulent spirit. He was unfit to be a Churchmnan, ex- cept in Papal times, when he might have been made a Car- dinal, and would have been a very fit Ntncio to a refractory Sovereign. 'What made PRETTYMAX a Bishop?-hi, talents, with the other advantages of " time and place" which happen to all mnen: thc timze, PrTT'S arrival at the University; and the plaee, the sante college with the future Minister. The simple old man is now trying to setk out a family for himself. Every, body knows the story of his mother's lawn sleeves, kept.for him out of a favouTite piece in the shop. The shop is true, though the story founded on it may be an iivention, after FHORAcE'S rule-that facts be assumed as the groun.l- work of fiction. Every body has great ancestors,if they thought worth the while to turn back a page or two and look for them. BuoNAIARTF., though a vain nian, was above tIis folly.