, 1853-01-22
ME WESTMINSTER REVIEW.


This able Journal was established under the pa
ironage and support Of the utra-liberas, styled
Of the British House Of Commons among whom
j Rowbuck, Mill, Bowring, Professor Long Of the
1 London University, Miss Mauineau, and others
names need not be quoted, conspicuousy figured.
II was for some years un6er the editorial supervi
sion Of Jeremy Bentham, for which fact it obtained
the sobfiquet Of the mOuth-piece of Benlhanism.--
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 redue.
tion Of Tory and exclusive privileges, hereditary
rights, kingly prerogatyes, &c. The astounding
developments made few years since, respecting
tie wrctched and, then, unhear Of horrors Of some
branches Of the mining population of England,
first appeared In its pages. Not only have its ar
tiees been directed against the afore-mentiln
cd abuses the work has also maintained an unre-
enting crusade against the alliance Of church and
Statc thus virtually seeking to abolish the Par
liamenlary Religion Of England, and eventually
to remove the still exciting marks Of feudslism,
which continue TO sfflict the British nation. II
has recently become the medium through which
Golden promulgaics bis Free trade doctrines
which will give it increased interest to the nulner-
Gus admirers here and elesewhcre ofthat great Re
former, In many particulars the Westminster Re
view espouses political faith closely allied 10 that
OF our own country and therefore we may, with.
out any extraordinary effort of charity, be induced
10 cherish ii as an exOrlic worthy Of being engraf-
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 WestmnisteT, and thus ad
ding greatly 10 its value as a literary periodical
THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW,
is a work Of more recent origin than those already
deseribed-but Is, nevertheless, destined TO occupy
As prominent place in the Republic Of Letters.
The great ecclesiastical movement in Scoland
led to its establishment, There was no journal in
the United Kingdom. which appeared to meet the
necessities of the Anti NStohal-church agitation.
Indeed, the revolution caused by the disruption
induced new slate Of things, placing the actors
in new positions Of observation: nos could they
give utterance to their new perceptions of State aud
Church Poliey-their new sYmathies-their new
emotions, without some organ Of thought than any
heR extant. Hence the spontaneous agreement of
the great master minds among them, in the neces-
sty 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
striking characteristics Of the times, and the grand
principle which Robertson, Smith, and many of
tho eminent men ofScotAnd took the 6ell esntu-
ry ago to write dowR, is now advocated and vim
dicated in this able work. and in the same lnefary
Sustained, then, ~ these distinguished works are
end ever have been, BY the highest osdcT OF scho-