, 1853-01-29
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.

THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.
This able journal was established under the pa
tronage and support Of the ultra.lberas so styled
Of The British House of Commons among whom
RoNbuck, Mill Bowring, Professor Long of the
1 London University, Miss Mauineau, and otheu
names need not be quoted, conspieuously figured
IL was for some years unccr ;he editorial snpervi
sion Of Jeremy Bentham for which fact il obtained
the sobriquet Of the mouth-piece Of Bsnthanism.-
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
a series of powerful articles, tending to the redue.
tion Of Tory and exclusive privileges, hereditary
rights, kingly Prerogatives, &c. Tho astounding
developments made a few years since, respecting
the wretched and, then, unheard ofhorors Of some
branches Of the mining population of England,
first appeared in its pages. Not only have its ar
ticles been directed against the afore-monli9n-
ed abuses the work has also maintained an unre-
lenting crusade against the alliance Of church aud
State, thus virtually seeking TO abolish the " Par
liamentary Religion OF England, and eventually
to remove the still exciting marks Of fcudsism,
which continue to aiilict the British nation. It
has recently become the medium through which
Golden pTomulgAtes his Freo trade doctrines,
which will give it increased interest N the numcr-
Gus admirers here and elsewhere, Of that great Re
view espOuses political faith closely allied to that
Of our own country and therefore we may, with.
out any extraordinary effort Of charity, be induced
10 cherish il exortic worthy Of being engraft-
cd into orr 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 10 it, valoe a literary periodical
THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW,
is q work Of more recent origin than those already
is, neverthess, destined to occupy
as prominentA place In the Republic Of Letters.
The great ecclesiastical movement in Scotland
led to ils establishment, There was no journal in
the United Kingdom, which appeared to meet the
necessities Of the Anti Naiions-chureh agitation.
Indeed, the revolution caused by the disruption
induced new state Of things, placing the actors
in new positions Of observation; nor could they
give uteranee to their perceptions Of State and
Church Pohcy-their new sYmathies-their new
emotions, without some organ Of thought than any
hen extant. Hence the spontaneous agreement Of
the great master minds among them, 10 the neces-
sity of a new outlet Of opinioa, and the immediate
creation Of the North British Review. The basis
Of this Journal is the Evangelism Of the Nineeenth
century; nor il Il to b0 overlooked as one Of the
striking characteristics Of the times, and the grand
principle which Robertson, Smith. and many Of
the eminent meR ofSeouand took the field oentu-
~ ago to write down, is now advocated snd vim
dieated 10 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 scho-
lastle ability and political sagacily need not be
surprised to find them occupying such proud
pIe-eminee among the literary production Of the
world and the neglect Of their high claims upon
the consideration Of all classes Of the intellgeot