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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 110, 13 May 1867, Page 3

A visitor to Dartmoor writes, — " Without the walls of Dartmoor prison are laid the bodies of the many French ['prisoners of war who died there in the early part of the present century. Last year this burial around, whose turf walls had been trodden O *•* down, and into which swine might wander at will, was thoroughly enclosed, orna mentally planted, and a central granite obelisk reared, bearing an inscription — ' To the memory of the French prisoners of war who died at Dartmoor. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.' A lesser monument marks the testing place of the American prisoners. Coincidently this is somewhat remarkable, as done at the orders of the Governor, who is uucle of the present Viscount Hood, for the tomb of whose grandfather his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French has graciously directed a similar care to be shown."

In Dublin, a great Methodist orator once attempted to preach from the text " Eemember Lots wife," and made a failure. He afterwards remarked to Dr. Bond that he did not kuow the reason of failure, when the doctor replied that "he had better, hereafter,leave other people's wives alone."

A rumour has reached us that a serious legal hitch has most unexpectedly arisen with regard to the prosecution of Mr. Eyre by the Jamaica Committee. Its exact nature has not been allowed to transpire, but it is reported to be of such a character as may not only compel the agitators to desist from extracting funds to attack an officer and servant to the Queen, but may enable Mr. Eyre to indict those promoting it for conspiracy. Certain statutes are said to have been overlooked by those who drew up the case for Counsel's opinion, whicii have a most direct bearings upon the above points.

A fearful catastrophe has brought desolation upon the family of M. Simon Oppenheim, one of the heads of the great banking firm of Solomon, Oppenheim, and Co., of Cologne. His daughter, Madame the Baroness Deslandes, who married one of the youngest and most distinguished of the subprefects of the Erench Empire, had come to spend the Christmas holidays in Cologne with her family, leaving her two young children, whom she did not wish to expose to the inclemency of the weather,': behind her in France. On the 26th of December, in the midst of the family rejoicings, she received a letter from her governess, informing her that her little daughter had been coughing for some hours, but that the doctor said it was of no consequence. On this news the imagination of the young mother became excited. She thought that her daughter was very ill, and she reproached herself for haviug left her children behind. Her husband, father, and mother endeavored to tranquilise her by representing that the letter was of a favorable character, but nothing could dissipate her fears, and she determined on leaving Cologne at once, to make preparations for which she went to her chamber on the second storey, her husband following her; but, on finding that he could not shake her determination to leave, he came down to give instructions for the journey. Shortly afterwards he returned upstairs, accompanied by his sister-in-law. On entering the room they found it empty. A window was open. In a moment of frenzy, produced by overanxiety, the baroness had flung herself out. On being taken up she said in a feeble voice — "What have I done? I thought I had wings, and that they would take me to my children." Alas ! she was never to see them more. There was a hope for some days that she might recover, but it was not realised, for she died on the 31st December, aged 2-1. — Court Journal.