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ork ;oa;cals are the arv ci'" world. !
These pn scholastic and hter1s htraers in the
the British Br,iosms, they aid reaots "ts: and by
By their upt,.nndard valuable Oo4"11 often OBJ
election OF s'a"h r%ich they present, ',,orks O too
the epitomes ."sitv mHr Of consulting wv ~o' They
viate the neGer Ser general eHan,na,is cannot
voumnous SioS iIi American magal'sni magl,s,ina more
FIJI place wo~ ,hov discuss topics I;ous re,a scien
srSty to the affairs continent oSi1rest q or
agitate the civilized world. Whoever SUBJ
scribes to them all, may read the ablest rep
resentatives of the principal parties into
which the people of Great Britain are devi~
ded
The EGinb,Wg Rcciew.
The exponent of the Wing praty in Great
Britain, having from its commencement ad :
vocated freedom and the rights of the people.
| When the war, apparently of determination,
was waged against France by British Tory
rulers, and during which occurred the se-
cond great struggle of England with our own
country, this Review first unfurled the flag
Of resistance, made, by its unanswerable and
eloquent appeals in behalf of inalienable rights
the halls of British Legislation and even the
throne Itself to trmble. The graphic and
stirring delineations of those events, presen-
ted in the pages of that distinguished journal,
exhibit the truest portraiiure Of those perilous
to be found, perhaps, in the language. Its
influence was becoming so apparent, that at
length the leaders of the Tory party, at
whom the thundes of its eloquence was espe>
cially directed, found it too powerful an in-
strument to be resisted by ordinary means,
and hence they established the "Quarterly," !"
or as it is distinguished among American re-
prints.
The London Quarterly Reuiew.
Whereby to counteract that influence
which its powerful rival exerted agant their
measures The two great political parties
thus made strenuous efforts through their re-
spective organs, for the promulgatlon of their
antagonist principles; and during a long Sc
ries of years, these two leading periodicals
have concentrated the labors, the talent, and
the influence Of the adherents of the Wing
and Tory parties of Great Britain.
Men OF the highest literary rank, as well as
digniaries civil and ecclesastic, have con-
trbuted TO the pages of these works; among
them might be mentioned some of the most
resplendent names on the scroll of fame
| Among the regular contributors to the Lon
don Quarterly Review, were Southey Scott
Lockhart, tits present editor,) Apperey
Ferguson, Wordsworth, Lord Mahon, DR.
MIlman, (whose articles on Oriental Litera-
ture have been so highly esteemed and that
wonderful woman of Science, Mrs. Somer.
Vile, with many other scarcely less celebra,
ted. Th'u again in the Edlnburg Revew
it is enough to mention the following names
any one of which would of itself insure
high degree ofrenown to any work with which
it Nigh be associated--w we refer 10 Jeffrey
Napier, Brougam, Macintosh, and Macau
ey; the first of whom during his long connec
ton with the Review, actually wrote, on The
average. one third Of the articles that graceC
lis brilliant pages; while the universally ad
mired essays of the last, leave US in no man
ner of doubt as to their great intrinsic merit
The Westminster Reriec.
This able Journal was established unde
the patronage and support of the ultra-libe
rails, so styled, of the British House of Com
mons; among whom Roebuck, Mill, Bowrng
Professor Long, of the University, Mis-
Martineau, and others whose names neet
not be quoted, conspicuously figured. 1t was
for years under the editorial supervision 0
Jeremy Bentham, from which fact it obtain
ed the sobriquet of the mouth piece of Ben
thanism This work has ever been especi-
ally devoted to the great topics which inter
ested the mass Of the people--its pages have
been riie--it will be remembered with a Sc
ries of powerful articles, tending to the re-
duction of Tory and exclusive privileges, he
reditary rights, Kingy prerogativcs, ETC.
The astounding developments made a few
years since, respecting the wretched, and
till then, unheard of horrors of some branch
es ofthe mining population of England, first
appeared in its pages. Not only have its ar
ticles ever been directed against the afore.
mentioned abuses, but the work has also
maintained an unreentng crusade against
the alliance of church and state, and thus
virtually seeking to abolish the Parliamenta-
ry Religion of England, and eventually to re
move the still existing remnants of feudalism
which continue TO afiiict the British nation.-
1t has recently become the medium through
which Cobden promulgates his Free Trade
doctrines, which will give it increased inter.
est to the numerous admirers, here and else.
where, of that great Reformer. In MANY
particulars the Westminster Review espous.
es political faith closely allied to that of oul
own country--and therefore we may, without
any extraordinary effort of charity, be Undue.
ed to cherish it as an exotic worthy of being
engraited into our more genial soil 1t ha,
recently been united with the Foreign Quar-
terly Review, the more attractive fatures o
the two Reviews being now combined in III,
Westminster, and thus adding greatly t,
its value as literary periodical.
The North British Revieg.
is work of more recent origin than thos,
already described-but is, nevertheless, des
tined to occupy as prominent place in tn,
Republic of Letters
The great ecclesiastical movement in Scot
land led to its establishment. There was ne
journal in the United Kingdom which ap
peared to meet the necessities of this anti.
church agitat on Indeed, the revolution
caused by the disruption induced new stat,
things, placing the actors in new position,
OF observati0n--nor could they give utter
ance to their new perceptions OF State and
Church polity-their new sympathies--theil
new emotlons-wthout some other organ O
thought than any then extant Hence tn,
| spontaneous agreement of The great tpaste,