The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-01-22
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.

us III no manner ui doubt as 10 then
great intrinsic merit.
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.
This able journal was established un.
der the patronage aud support of the
ultra-lberals, SO styled, OF the British
House OF Commons; among whom Roe
buck, NH, BowriRg, Professor Long
ol the London University, Mss WnfiA-
fdu, aud others, whose names reed not
be quoted, conspicuously figured. 1t
was for some years under the editorial
supervision of Jeremy Bentham, from
which fact it obtained the soa5riqnft al
the mpulh.Piece Of Beulhanisn. Thu,
work has ever been especially devoted 10
the great topics which interest the mass
of the people lis pages have been rife,
ii will he remembered, with a series OF
powerful articles, tending 10 the reduc,
ton of Tory and exclusive privileges
hereditary rights, kngly prerogailves
&c, The astounding developments made
few wears since, respecting the wretch
ed, aud, ill then, unheard-of horrors o
some branches OF the mining population
OF England, first appeared IN lis pages
Not only have its articles ever been d.
rected against the aforementioned "a
buses the work has also maintained an
unreenting crusade against the alliance
Of Church and State, thus virtually seek
ing to abolish the Parliamentary Re
ligion of England, and eventually It
remove the still existing remnants OF ieu
dallsm which continue To alllict the Brit
ish nation. 1t has recently become III,
medium through which Cobden promul-
yates his free-irade doctrines, which vii
give il increased interest to the numefou:
| admirers, here and elsewhere, of thai
great Reiormer. In many par iculars,
the Westminster Review espouses po-
| liiical faith closely allied TO that of OUT
own country aud therefore we may
without any extraordinary effort of char
| ity, be induced To cherish it as an exotic
worthy of being engralted into our more
genial soil. 1t has recently been uniteC
with the Foreign Quarterly Review, til,
more attractive features of the two Re
views being now combined in the West
minister, and thus adding greatly 10 III
value as literary periodical.
THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW
is work Of more recent origin thar
those already described-but is, never
theless, destined to occupy asprominen
place in the Republic of Letters.
The great ecclesiastical movement II
Scotland led TO its establishment. Their
was no JOURNAL in the UNITED KING
DOM, which appeared 10 meet the neces
sites of this Anll-Nailonnl. Church agi
ialion.
This Periodical is not ultra in its view
on any one Of the grand departments Q
human knowledge al the same time
never drifts from It's moorings on tn
shores of the pure Evangelical religion
of the Bible. Nor will it fail to com
pare most lavorally with every olhe
contemporary in the amount OF talent
energy, aud spirit, enlisted on It's side
The names Of Sir David Brewster, DIR:
Hanna, Cunningham, Lorrimer, Can
dish, Gordon, Buchanan, Smith, &C
are host in themselves. Much foreig
talen, is also pledged to adorn and enric
It's pages.
IL is not to be considered strictly
Theological RevieO, for topics of ever
kind calculated to occupy and intere'
the cultivated mind are introduced
The lamen,ed DR.. CHALMERS was III
founder and principal Editor of this RI
view, Il since his death ii has heen abb
conducted by his son-in-law. DIR, liam
BLAeKwooD's EDINBURGH MAGAZINE
is less exclusive in its character than th
works already noticed 4; its contents ma
be considered under the general head
of classical literature, biography, narr'
tiyes, historical and fictitious, poetr.