, 1852-12-18
TIE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.

TIE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.
This able Journal was established under the pa
tronage and support Of he utra-liberas, 80 styled
Of the British House Of Commons among WHOM
Rowbuck, Mil, Bowling, Professor Long of the
! London University, Miss Martineau, and other,
names need not be quoted, conspicuously figured
1t was for some years untcr The editorial supervi
sion Of Jeremy Benthom, for which fnctit Obtained
the sobriquet of the moulh-piece Of Benthanism.-
This work has ever been especially devoted to the
great topics which interest the mass Of tho people
its pages has been rife, it will be remembered with
series of powerful articles, tending to the reduc.
ton Of Tory and exclusive privileges, hereditary
rights, kingly prerogatives, &c. The astounding
developments made few years since, respecting
the wretched and, then, unheard Ofhorrors of some
branches of the mining population of England
first appeared in its pages Not only have its ar.
tic les ever been directed against the aiore-ment,n-
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
liamenlary Religion of England, and eventually
to remove the still existing marks of feudalism,
which continue to afllict the British nation. II
has recently become the medium through which
Golden promulgaies his Free trade doctrines,
which will give 1t increased interest to the numcr-
admirers here and elsewhere. of thot great Re
former. In many particulars the Westminster Re-
view esPousos political faith closely allied to that
of our own country; and therefore we may, with.
out any extraordinary effort Of charity, be induced
to cherish it an exortic worthy of being engraft
ed into or more genial soil, II 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 TO its value as a literary periodical
THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW,
is work Of more recent origin than those already
described-but is, nevertheless, 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 TO meet the
necessities Of the Anti National church agitation
Indeed, the revolution caused by the disruption
induced new sts'e Of things, placing the actors
in new positions Of observation nor could they
give uttennce to their new perceptions Of state and
Church Policy-theiT new sYmnlhes-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
creation Of the North British Review. The basis
OF this Journal is the Evangelism Of the Nineteenth
century; nor is II to be overlooked rs one Of the
striking characteristics Of the tines and the grand
principle which Robertson, Smith. and many of
the eminent men ofScotland took the field a entu-
ry ago to write down, is now advocated and vD-
dlcated 10 this able work, and in the same literary
metropolis.
Sustained, then las these distinguished works are
and ever have been, by the highest order Of scho-