, 1852-10-23
the WESTMINSTER REVIEW,

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This able Journal was established under the pa.
tronage and support Of the ultra-berals so STYLED
of tho British House Of Commons among whom
Rowbuck, Mill, Bowring, Professor Long of the
London University, Miss Martineau, and others
names need not be quoted conspcuOusly figured.
1t was for some years unter The editorial supervi
sion of Jeremy Denlham, for which faciit Obtained
the sobriquet Of the mouih-pfeee 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 il will be remembered, with
a series of powerful articles, tending to the reduc.
tion Of Tory and exclusive privileges, hereditary
rights, kingly prerogatives, &c. The astounding
developments made few years since, respecting
tie wrctched and, then, unheard ofhorors Of some
branches Of the mining population Of England.
first appeared in its pages. Not only have its ar
ticles ever been directed against the alore-mentipn
ed abuses the work has also maintained an unre-
lenting crusade against the alliance Of Church and
State, thus virtually seeking to abolish the Par
liamentary Religion" Of England, and eventually
to remove the still existing marks Of feudalism
which continue 10 aflict the British nation. It
has recently become the medium through which
Golden promugates his Free trade doctrines
which will give it increased interest to the numcr
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 county; and therefore we may, with
out any extraordinary effort Of charity, be induced
to cherish it as exoric worthy of being engraft-
ed into oar more genial soil. IL has recently been
united with the Foreign Quarterly Review. the
more attractive features Of the two Reviews being
now combined in the Westminster, and thus ad
ding greatly 10 its value as literary periodical.
THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW,
is work of more recent origin than those already
descubed-but is, noyerihless, destined to occupy
as prominent place in the Republic Of Letters.
The. great ecclesiastical movement in Scotland
led TO its establishment, There was no journal in
the United Kingdom, which appeared 10 meet the
necessities Of the Anti-Nalionn- Church az sitalon.
Indeed, the revolution caused by the disruption
induced new state Of things. placing the actors
in new positions Of observation; nor could they
give uterance to their new perceptions Of State and
Church Policy-ther new sYmathies-their new
emotions, without some organ Of thought than any
hen exlant. Hence the spontaneous agreement Of
the great master minds among them, in the neces-
sity Of new outlet Of opinion, and the immediate
creadon Of the North British Review. The basis
of this Journal is the Evangelism Of the Nineteenth
century; nor Is ii 10 be overlooked as one of the
striking characteristics of the tines and the grand
principle which Robertson, Smith. and many of
the eminent men ofScoiland took the field centu-
~ ago to write down, is now advocated snd vim
deated 10 this able work, and in The same Literary
metropolis.
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