, 1853-04-30
TIE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.

THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.
This able Journal was established under the pa.
ironSge and support Of the ulra.liberas, 20 styled
Of the British House Of Commons among whom
Rowbuck Mill, Bowring, Professor Long Of the
London University, Miss Martineau, and others
names need not be quoted, conspcuousy figured.
II was for some years un1er ;he editorial superv
sion Of Jeremy Bentham, for which iactit Obtained
the sobiquei Of the mouth piece Of Benlhonism.-
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 reduc.
ton Of Tory and exclusive privileges hereditary
rights, kingy prerogatiyes, &c. The astounding
developments made few years since, respecting
the wrrtched and, then, unheard ofhorrors Of some
branches OF tho mining population Of England,
first appeared in its pages. Not only have it's ar.
ticles been directed against the afore-menli9n
cd abuses the work has also maintained an unre.
lenling crusade against the alliance of church and
State, thus virtually seeking to abolish the Par
liameniary Religion Of England, and eventually
to remove the still exsiting marks of feudalism,
which continue TO aflict the British nation. II
has recently become the medium through which
Coblon promulgates his Preclude doctrines,
which will give Il increased interest 10 the numcr-
ous 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
10 cherish il as an exofic 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 csmhned in the Westminster, and thus ad
ding gtoaly 10 lis value as a literary periodical.
b THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW,
is a work of more recentorigin than those already
describe1-but is nevertheless, desiined to oscrpy
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 4 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 ofthought than any
hen eStant. 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
ofthis Journal is the Evangelism Of the Nineteenth
century nor is Il to be overlooked as one Of the
striking characteristics of the times and the gran,l
principle which Robertson, Smith, and many Of
tho eminent men ofScotland hook the field a centu-
~ ago to write down, is now advocated and vim
dcated in this able work, and in the same literary
metropolis.
Sustained then, as these distinguished works are
over hav haap Ia, The hfohasf nrNer of scho-