, 1852-10-16

may read the abest representatives Of the principal
parties into which the people of Great Britain arc
divided.
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW
is the exponent of the Wing party in Great Britain
having from its commencement advocated Freedom
and the rights of the people. When the war, ap.
parentY of determination, was waged against
France by British Tory rulers, and during which
occurred the second great struggle Of England
with our own country, tAis Review FIRST unfurled
the flag of resistance, made by its unansworabc
and eloquent appeals in behalf Of inalcndble rights
the halls of legislation and even the throne itself
to tremble. The graphic and stirring dcleneltions
Of those events, presented in the pages of that dis
tinguished Journal exhibit the truest portiature Of
those perilous days 10 be found, perhaps, in the
language. It's influence was becoming so apparent,
that at length the leaders Of the Tory party, al
whom the thundcn of its eloquence were especial
ly directed, found it too powerful an instrument to
be resisted by ordinary means, and hence they es.
tablished the "Quarery," or as il is distinguished
among the American Reprints,
THE LONDON QTARTELY REVIEW
whereby TO counteTact that influence which its pow
erful rival excrled against their measures The
two great political parties thus made strenuous eff
forts through their respective organs, for the pro-
mitigation of their antagonist principles and dur
ing long series of years, these two leading Peri
odicals have concentrated the labors, the talent,
and the influence of the adherents Of the Wing and
Tory parties Of Great Britain.
Men Of the highest literary rank, as dignitaiies
civil and ecclesiastc, have contributed to the pages
of these works: among them might be mentioned
some of the most resplendent names on the scroll
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London Quarterly Review were Southey, Scott,
Lockhnrt its present editor), Appearson, Fergu>
son, Wordsworth, Lord Mahan, DIR. Milman (whusc
articles on Oriental literature have been highly
esteemed } and that wonderful women Of science,
Mrs. SomeUie, with many others scarcely less
celebrated Then again in the Edinburgh Review,
it is enough to mention the following names, any
one which it might be associated we refer to
Jeifreys. Napier, Brougham, Macintosh, and
McCaulay the first Of whom during his long con-
nexion with the Review actually wrote, on the av-
erage, one third of the articles that graced its bril-
liant pages; while the universally admired essays
tf the last, republished so extensively in our own
and the parent country, leave US in no manner of
doubt as to their great intrisic merit.
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.
This able Journal was established under the pa
support Ol ullId-HDcTuIa, SO SlNle0,
Of the British House Of Commons among whom
Rowbuck, Mill, Bowrng Professor Long of the
London University, Miss Msnineau, and others
names need not be quoted, conspieuously figured.
1t was for some years unter the editorial superb
sion Of Jeremy Benlham, for which fact il obtained
the sobTiquet Of the mouth-pieco of Benthanism.-
This work has ever been especially devoted to the
great topics which interest the mass of the people :
its pages has been rife, ii will be remembered, with
a series of powerful articles, tending to the reduc
tion of Tory and exclusive privileges, hereditary
rights, kiDgly prerogatives, &c. The astounding
developments made few years since, respecting
the wretched and, then, unheard ofhonors of some
branches of the mining population of England,
first appeared in its pages. Not only have its ar
tces ever been directed against the afore-mcntiln.
ed abuses the work has also maintained an unre-
enting crusade against the alliance of Church and
State, thus virtually seeking to abolish the Par
iameniary Religion of England, and eventually
to remove the still exciting marks of feudalism,
which continue to afflict the British nation. II
has recently become the medium through which
Cobden promulgaes bis Free trade doctrines
which will give it increased interest to the numer
Gus admirers here and elsewhere Of that great Re
former. In many particulars the Westminster Re
view espouses political faith closely allied TO that
Of our own country; and therefore we may, with
ou' any eA'ao'or'ay enO,. o. cna,'y, oe INDUCED
70 eleI'sn II as an eAo'uo mo'iny oI oeIns engiht
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more attractive Cpatnres of The Iyo Revevs bc;ns
noy combined in tbe Wcs,m;n.,cr and ,bus al
Jno rrea,lv to he value as a literary ncriodical
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