Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-08-07 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ITST. tinges, baptisms and burials, ministers and ministerial life in 1650-1800." loan appendix Dr. Eager purp scs giving so to accout t. of the marriage of Rohm t Burns. IT is amid that Mr. Poynter's great work, on which he has been engagednn and off fir the past three yenta Queen of Sheba visiting Solomon "—will n:tt hr ady in tint° for next year's Academy. The picture is one exceedingly rich in design, with a gorgeous and intricately-drawn court, crowded with figures, and Itltely to bt worthy of the artist's best p wer. and to recall the days of his greater efforts in t• Atalanta's Race,' " Neusiras," and " IF.sculapius." A NYw journal, to be called La Thyme litriesp,nd is announced from Par's. It is to be the orgim of the younger wihool of Freneli Atierateers, represented by MM. Bteptmsna Mallarme, J. K. Fluyamens, and Villiers Pls'e-Adam, who are to be its guiding sp'rits. Fort writing an article In a recent number of the Conlemporarg Review, criticising the action of the lianiah Government, Herr Aleksis Pt terseruStudnitz has been suspended from his post as instruotor at the Military Academy of Copenhagen. Herr St iidnitz is a well-known man in Denmark, and editor of the Econ,mical Joureat.  A STORY by a daughter of Mr. Thomas Arnold's sp-eared lately in Temple kw. A tale by another I ).tifr,rd lady, Miss E. Edersheim, is to be published in the 811111 e magazine. Tilit Rev. J. H. Lupton, surmaster of St. Paul's School, has prepared for publication a life of the founder, Dean Colet. Tbe work will be published by 11r. Hodges at the end of the present year. Me. PAOIRT TOYNERE hopes shortly to place the first portion of his " Dictionary to the • Divinia Cornmedia'" in the printer's hands. The complete work will probably form one thick volume, and will be published by Messrs. George Bell & Sons _  Miet IZA Dt7F1.179 HARDY is bringing out a honk entitle d "Oranges and Alligators ; or, Life in South Florida," wherein she relates her experiences in South Florida during a recent visit. It will be published by N'essrs. Ward end Downey. Lotto intiNTSON is mid to have in hand a number of new poems. The most memorable of these is a piece which may be described as a postcript to " Locksley Ilall.'"fhe hero of the poem reappears as a broken• down man of eighty, whose modified views about life and liberty may be taken to reflect the I sureate's own.  ANOTHER name has been added to the list of royal author, viz , that of Prince Carl of Sweden and Norway, who makes his &but before the English public in the forthcoming number of the Ninet ulith Gainey with an article "In an Indian Jungle: a Leaf from my Diary," being an account of a tiger hunt in India during fl.R.llits visit to that country a few years ago. The article has been rendered into English by M. earl Siewers. It is staoscl that Prince Eligen will shortly follow his brother with an account of his visit to the Druses of Lebanon. Me article in the July number of the Quarterly Review on 'The Greek Islands" is from the pen of Mr. Theodore Bent.  °NEM Lord Macaulay's letters has just found its way to a public institution. It bears the date octota,r 24, ISIS, and is interesting as giving the wnter's estimekte, a few weeks previous to publication, of h e "History of England from the Accession of James II." '1 work.' he says, "with scarcely an intermission from seven in the morning to seven in the afternoon, and shall probably continue to do durit.g the next ten mays. Then my labours will become lighter and in about three weeks will completely Cease. There will still be a fortnight before publics. ton I have armed myself with all the philo•ophy for the event of a failure; though Jeffery, Ells Marion, Lon ,Trian, and Mrs. Longman seem to think th it there it no c'amce of such is catastrophe. I ;night add, that M icleod has read the third chapter, and, thritizti he makes some objections, professes to be on the is helm better pleased than with any other history that he has read. The state of my own mind is this— when I compare toy book with what I imagine history oogbt to be, I feel dejected and ashamed; but when I compare it with some histories which have a high rcpute, I feel reassured"  A TR/Min:PO[9 storm broke over Paris and the West ‘,f Fra,oe during the night between Friday and Saturday. In Paris the rain descended in such torrents that many of the streets had the appearance of streams. In the suburbs the gardens were much damaged. Telegraphic communication with England whs entirely stopped between midnight and five o'cl,  AT Sheffield a man named Swallow attempted to commit suicide, both by taking laudanum and cutting hi throot. Although a steady and respectable man he had been out of work for eight month:. during which time he has been supported by his mother. and has thus been a burden upon her. It is this that induced him to endeavour to take his life.  Foui men were killed and three seriously woundod at Dieppe on Sigurday by the explosion of a boiler e. nnected wigt the dredges used for resi acing the keel of a part of the port., to enable vesse4a to piss into the new basins. The poor fellows, were lierribly r ati