, 1852-11-13
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.

l. THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.
This able journal was established under the pa,
tronage and support Of the utra-liberas, so STYLED
Of the British House Of Commons among whom
RoWbuck, Mill Bowring, Professor Long Of the
4 London University, Miss Marineau, and Others
names need not be quoted, eonspicuoosly figured
II was for some yeaTs under The editorial superb
SION u Jeremy Bentham for which fact il Obtained
the sobiquet Of the moulh-piece 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, it will be remembered with
= series Of powerful articles, tending to the redue.
lion q Tory and exclusive privileges, hereditary
rights, kingly prerogatives, &c. The astounding
Developments made few years since, respecting
tile wretched and then, unheard ofhonors Of some
bsnEches Of the mining population Of England,
first appeared in its pages. Not only have its AZ
ticles been directed against the aIoTe-menti,n-
ed abuses the work has also maintained an unre-
lentng crusade against the alliance of Church and
State, thus virtually seeking to abolish the Par
iamentary Religion Of England, and eventually
to remove the still exsiting marks of feudslism,
which continue TO afilict the British nation. II
has recently become the medium through which
Golden promulgates his Free trade doctrines
which will give il 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 county; and therefore we may, with.
oO, any extraordinary effort of charity, be induced
10 cherish it o. an exoClic worthy Of being engraft
ed into oar moro genial SOIL u has recently been
united with the Foreign Quarterly Review, tho
more attractive features Of the two Reviews beng
now combined in the WestminisisF, and thus ad
uing giea'y 10 It's value as literary periodical.
THE NODTII DDlnUCUT Dr,Nrtn,.v
is a work Of more recent origin than those already
described-bui is, nsvertAless, 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 National Church agitJion
Indeed, the revolution caused by the disTupu,n
induced new state Of things, placing the actors
in new positions Of observation: nor could they
give uitenDee to their new perceptions ofSiaie and
Church Poliey-their new sYmnthies-their new
emotions, without some organ Of thought than any
hen eXtant. Hence the spontaneous agreement of
the great master minds among them, in the neces-
sisy Of new outlet Of opinion, AMI the immediate
creation Of the North British Review. The basis
Of this Journal is the Evangelism Of the Nineteenth
century; nor is it to be overlooked as one of the
striking characteristics Of the times and the grand
principle which Robertson, Smith. and many of
the eminent men Of Scotland took the field a centu-
ry ago to write down, is now advocated and viD
diented in this able work, and in the same literary
metropolis
Sustained, then ,as these distinguished works are
and ever have been, by the highest order Of seho-
lasiic ability and political ssgacily need not be
surprised to find them occupying such a proud
PFe-emince amOng the literary production Of the
trorlH. and The e ks.k