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And golden blossoms stoop to kiss the golden waves below

" There 'mid dark rocks the pearl-drop lies, the coral blushes

With shells that mock tt

rainbow's hues the yellow beach is

spread,
And birds most beautiful and strange flit through the balmy

air,
And silver lakes reflect a sky for ever calm and fair

" But we

:ngland, for our happy English

sail for rnerr,

shore—
Her white cliffs soon will greet our eyes, her welcome breakers

roar.
Land of the mighty and the good! land of the brave and
free !
We sail for happy England—and oh '
with ye"'

who would choose

Ainsworth's Magazine

LITERARY NOTICES

Theotokos ; or the Mother of our Lord. By Charles Augus-
tus Hulbert, formerly Tyrwhitt, Hebrew, and
Crosse Theological Scholar of the University of Cam-
bridge, and now Perpetual Curate of Slaithwaite, York-
Newling.

London : Washbourne. Liverpoo

This work consists of a sermon on the song of the ble:

Virgin, and an historical discussion of the question, " is
Mary to be called the mother of God ?" Circumstances of a
local nature which are not explained by the author, but to
which allusion is made in the prefaee, occasioned its publica-
tion; but as it grapples with one of the points controverted
between the defenders of the reformation and the abettors of
the Oxford heresy, we regard it at the present motfient as

worthy of all the publicity

a we can give

through the

medium of our cola

In the sermon the author under-

takes to bring together the various assertions contained in
_

- _
Scripture respecting the virgin mother of Christ, and pro-
ceeds, step by step, with a candid and dispassionate exami-
nation of the bearings of

,ch on her position and character

in order to ascertain what amount of homage or veneration
le Christian church ; and he ar rives at

is due to her from

ture affords no justific.

.tion of the

the conclusion tha

lofty titles wh

cribed to her in the Rotnish ritual,
ct of the Oxford tracts and their

some of which it is the obje

abettors in the provinces to revive in the church of England
In the " historical discussion" which follows,
shows that, though he has used great plainness of si,
the sermon, he is fully prepared to meet his antagonists on
the broad ground of antiquity, by an appeal to the decisions
of councils, and in the use of quotations from the Greek and
Latin fathers. The points which he elucidates in this section
of his work are the following :
" I.—The origin of the term Theotokos, and its lawful

the writer

leech in

sense as opposed to the Nestorians.
" ll.—lts perversion into " The Mother of God" by the
church of Rome.
" lll.—The heresy and corruptions which arose in conse-

quence of its abuse.
" IV. The consequent abandonment of it by the re-

formers.
"V.—And the general inutility of reviving it."
In the discussion of these points the author has so com-
pletely sifted the whole matter, and disencumbered it of its
difficulties, as to leave on the mind of his reader but one im-
pression, namely, that the phrase " The Mother of God" is
highly objectionable, not only as unscriptural, but as imply-
ing more than can possibly be true, or was originally intended
by the Greek term Theotokos. And the man, who, after a
careful perusal of this small volume, would still persist in
using such a phrase in reference to the Virgin Mary, we
should regard as more remarkable for his bias to Romish
error than for his love of scriptural truth. We are delibe-
rately of opinion that the time is come when the advocates
of the popish tenets, put forth in a refined and modernised
form, in the Oxford tracts, must be boldly and every where
met. The champions of protestant truth must buckle on
their armour and prepare to combat these enemies of our
national church who are lurking within its walls, with ser-
mon for sermon, tract for tract, letter for letter, and speech
for speech, for it is already begun to be whispered, and in
some quarters loudly prollaimed that the former shrink
from the contest from a consciousness of their inability to
encounter the talent and learning of the tractarians. But
such we know is not the fact, and we are confident there will
be a movement in the right direction by and bye. As an in-
dication of this we hail the appearance of the present publi-
cation, and beg to recommend it to the attentive Perusal of
our clerical readers, and of such of the laity as take an in-
terest in church matters.

Transatlantic Sketches. Ross and Nightingale

This cheap work appears to go on with unabated vigour,
and commands the interest of the reader in each successive
number. In the present we have eight stories,
in different
styles of narration, illustrative of Indian or American life.
They are entitled " The Skeleton Cave," The Rifle,"
" Harry Blake," " The Little Dutch Sentinel of the Man-
hadoes," "My little Husband," "The Disgraced Scalp
Lock," "The French Village," and "Woman's Love," all
these may be obtained for 18d !

Ainsworth. Wareing Webb, agent for Liverpool

The editor's " Windsor Castle" occupies a tolerable space
in this month's number. and takes ns well into the story, ex-
.

citing our attention, and enlisting our sympathy. _
trations by George Cruickshank and Alfred Delamotte are
inimitable. Camilla Toulmin has a clever poem, entitled
"Astrology and Alchemy." Mr. Kenealy has also a good
contribution—" The Shepherd Paris." "My Dream at
Hop Lodge" is a contribution in Laman Blanchard's best
style. The Baroness de Calabrella, who has just Tublished a
remarkable, a clever, and beautiful little book, entitled
" The Prism of Thought," has a story entitled "A Legend
of Normandy." The state and prospects of the " Drama in
China" is a laughable bit of anticipatory intelligence. The

The illup-

postscript we really must give. The writer of the letter says
—" What do you think of my bringing a Chinese opera com-
pany to London. Though, they could not look worse than
the Germans, or behave worse than the Italians, they would
have the advantage of a language which nobody
could under-
stand. I wish you would mention it to Mr. Bunn or Mr.
Lumley." The "Monastery of L'Avernia" is a tale founded

ch took place in Italt,

"Three

-- ---
" by Mr. Francis Ainsworth, is an i
? nriventure in that lopality. "7

ed by a well executed portrait
drawing by Harlowe.

:he proprie

town, is a son of

the article

making alto-

indeed fnr fiat literature

•erest periodi,

icals of the month

and Co.,

line forms the subject ; it ia embellished with an e

igraving of

the Lime-street station, well executed, and faithful. The
other illustrated article is a summer ramble through the
Vale of Matlock. This excellent description, one might ima-

gine, will induce loungers who peruse it, to pay the charming

locality a visit

rticle we

feel inter

The origin

11 worth p

t in making up an excelle

The Zoolo.

periodic

first) contains accounts of tip,

nd progress of writing is an

wned-c

a tters connected with the animal kingdo

VA RIETIES

boa like th

:s a chiropodist like an Ir

a corn cutter

Why are rally;

are on th

Why is a smu

duty to his soviie

contractors like r

ler a good patriot

rutionist

ns must

he owes his

Why is Sir Robert Peel like a pot-boy ?—Because he
carries out the landlord's measures.—The. Bread Ba,ket.
Why is a man looking for the philosopher's stone like
Neptune ?—'Cos he's a sea-king (seeking) sot never was.

POLITICS.—The mayor of Sunderland (? or Newcastle)
lately rin a tilt against the lord-lieutenant of the county
(Lord Londonderry) on the occasion of a public dinner to
the Duke of Cambridge. "I am utterly astonished at there
being a whig mayor," said J-, " for I thought they were
all Pitt men in that part of the kingdom."

A TAILOR'S REPARTEE.—A person being seated at table
between two tradesmen, and thinking to be witty upon them,
said, " How prettily I am fixed between the two tailors."
Upon which one of them replied, " Being only beginners in
business, we cannot afford to keep more than one goose be-
tween us."

It appears from a recent statistical return, that there are
in Austria and its dependencies, including its Italian terri-
tory, 25,500,000 Catholics, 3,500,000 members of the United
Greek Church, 2,900,000 of the non-United, 1,260,000 Lu-
therans, 2,240,000 of the Reformed Church, 45,000 Socinians,
and 600,000 Jews. The number of religious houses for men

amounts to 768, compr
The

religious order
and

3rothers o

rev possess
id 1093

12 inmates ; the Benedictines 37
and the Capuchins 98, and 1298 inmt
convents, containing 3661 women.

The following act c
Auxiliare Breton :—"
years of age, coming

Two you.

ere are

a woman

intoxica

f lying

ity is related by the
3, between 19 and 22
.ar Ploubzerre, found

Some oe

desperate coed

Lmined

set fire to her cloth

led her t

side, from t

.nd left
in this

to the

On being ex-
of her right

perpetrators of thi
JANUARY

presided over

Inasmuch as

act are in custody