, 1853-03-19
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.

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This able Journal was established under the pa.
tronage and support Of the ulralberals so STYLED,
of the British House Of Commons among whom
Rowbuck, Mill, Bowring, Professor Long Of the
London University, Miss Manineau, and others
names need not be quoted, eonspicuously figured.
II was for some years un5er The editorial supervi
sion Of Jeremy Bentham, for which faetit obtained
the sobriquel Of the mouth-pieee 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 il will be remembered with
series Of powerful articles, tending to the redue-
ton Of Tory and exclusive privileges, hereditary
rights, kingly preTogatives, &c. The astounding
developments mtde few years since, respecting
the wretched and, then, unheard ofhonors Of some
branches OF the mining population Of England,
first appeared In its pages. Not only have its ar
toles ever been directed against the afore-menIan-
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
liamentary Religion" Of England, and eventually
to remove the still eKsitng marks Of feudasm,
which continue to affict the British nation. n
has recently become the medium through which
Golden promulgates bis Freetrade doctrines,
which will give it increased interest n 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
ofour own county and therefore we may, with.
out any extraordinary effort of charity, be induced
TO cherish ii exorlic worthy of being enQrafl-
ed into orr more genial soil 1t 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 its value as a literary periodical.
THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW,
is work of more recent origin than those already
described-but Is, neverthless, destined 10 occupy
as prominent place in the Republic Of Letters.
The great ecclesiastical movement 10 Scotland
led to its establishment, There was no Journal in
the United Kingdom, which appeared to meet the
necessities Of the National church, 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 utlerance to their perceptions oState and
Church Policy-their new sYmathies-their new |
emotions, without some organ ofthought than any
hen eXtant. 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 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 ofScotland took the field centu-
~ ago to write down, is now advocated and vim
dicated 10 this able work. and in the same literary
metropolis.
Sustained, then ,as these distinguished works are
and ever have been bv the hiohest orler of scho~