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Wellington Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 2723, 25 August 1868, Page 5

Continental News.—^Russia has made no hostile demonstration of late. On the contrary, an odd proposal emanates from the Court of St. Petersburg!*, namely, that there shall, by European consent, be no further use of explosive missiles in war, because they are such cruel tilings, and round shot will answer every purpose of testing relative btrongth. It is very difficult to believe that such a suggestion should be made without a smile on the purt of the statesman who had to reduce it to writing, but it has been made in all due form to France. Thence wo have nothing to report, save that the young Prince Imperial appears to bo over-worked in a very severe manner, in accordance with the Froneh system, which ruins the health of the young, and which the Kmperor, who has lived in England and 6een (ho splendid condition and capa- . bilities of the. English boyhood, might have had the good sense to eschew for his delicate heir. Rumors of a revolt in Spain aro accepted, but not aB yet confirmed, Cutuloniu being the e«cne. From America we have news that General Grant and Mr Colfux have respectively accepted their nomination by the Republican (Radical) party, General Grant, the soldier, finishing his brief letter with the words " Let ua have peace," Mid Mr Colfix, on the question of the right* of naturalised citizens, observing, "We Americans nro all foreigners." The ambassador from the States to Kngland is Mr Keverdy Johnson, a gentleman . by birih, and education, and hstbit, a moderate man, and one who his friendly to us. He belongs ; to the Democratic party. This selection is much approved. i At a meeting of the Dublin Council the Lord Mayor stated thnt since thoy hißt met he had I wailed upon the Queen at Windsor to present a ' loyul address in reference to the attempt upon the I life of the Dulte of Edinburgh. Her Majesty had ; graciously conferred upon him the honor of knight- ) hood, in recognition of the welcome accorded by I the citizens of Dublin to the Prince and Princess ! of Wales, mid hud given tlie following reply to • the address of the council : — The loyalty and dos votion to my family and person expressed by you

on the late attempt to assassinate my dear son, the Duke of Edinburgh, is very gratifying to my feelings. I thank you for your sympathy in the anxiety naturally felt by me on such intelligence, and I trust that your wishes for the Duke of Edinburgh's return hoaie in health and strength may soon be fulfilled The reply, which was read by the clerk, elicited applause, and was ordered to be inserted on the minutes. Sib Robert Napier. G.C.8., G.C.S.I.— Sir Robert Napior, G.C 8., G.C.S.I , i 8 the son of Major 0. F. Napier of the Royal Artillery, by Catherine, daughter of Codrington Carrington, Bsq.. of Blackmans, Barbadoes. Born 1810, lie was educated at Addincombe Military College, and entered the Bengal Engineers 1827, became captain in 1841, served throughout the Sutlej campaign of 1845 6, was chief engineer at Moodkee (horse killed) and at Feroxeshah, where he was severely wounded (horse killed) ; BrigadeMajor of Engineers at Sobraon, and in the subsequent advance on Lahore, for which he received a medal and clasps, with the rank of j brevet-major, 1846 ; was appointed chief engineer to conduct the Beige of the hill fort of Kangra the same year, and received the special thanks of government for his services in the ransport of the 6eige-train to that place. Was chief engineer during part of the Beige of Moltan, 1849 and was severely wounded. Commanding j n»ipeer of the right wing of the army of the Punjab at, the battle of Goojerat, and in Sir Wa ter Gilbert's* persuit of the Silkh army, for which service he received a medal and clasps, with tho rank of brevet lieutenant-colonel. Ab chief civil engineer of the Punjab organised and initiated an extensive series of public works, which i were honorably acknowledged by the late Lord Dalhousie. Commanded a column which defeated the Hussunzie tribo on the Black Mountain in Hazara 1852 ; was present with the expedition against the Boore Afreedees 1852 3, and received the special thanks of tho government. Chief of Sir James Outram'e staff 1857, I and was present at the several actions leading to the first relief of Lucknow, Mungulwar, Alumbaugh, and Charbagh ; commanded the troops in the rescue of the seige - train, which had been sui'rounded and cut off in the suburbs, the sortie for the capture of Phillip's garden battery, and other seperate operations ; was present as chief of the staff in the latter ope> ations at the Alumbnugh, and brigadier and chief engineer at the seigo of Lucknow 1858, in which year he was madoaC.B ; commanded a brigade at tho capture of Gwalior ; defeated T/intia Topee at Jonra Alipoor, and captured 25 guns ; when in the command of the Gwalior division, bombarded and reduced the fort of Powrie ; after five days close pursuit, surprised and defeated, with a squadron of the 14th Dragoons, Ferozeshah's force at Ranode ; commanded the second division of the China Expeditionary Army in the action of Sinho ; was present at Tanko j with his division and the whole of the artillery, in conjunction with the BYench division of General Collineau, directed the operations ending the storm of the North Taku Fort, advance on and occupation of Pekin; twice received the thanks of parliament; was a member of the Supreme Council of India 1861-5, and was made a K.C.B in the latter year, a G.C.S.I. 1867, GC.B. 1868; was appointed to the chief command of the Abyssinian expedition 1867, which he has bo recently conducted to a successful issue. Created 1858. — From Debrett's' " Illustrated Baronetuge tmd Knightage." Ex- Governor Eyre. — Tho Court of Queen's Bench was occupied the greater part of Tuesday, June 2, by the case of Mr Eyre. The grand jury of the court in the county of Middlesex having been sworn in especially to try the allegations of misdemeanour on which the accused was committed by Mr Vaughan. Justice Blackburn delivered an elaborate charge on the whole case. The grand jury then retired, and after a lengthened deliberation threw out the bill— On Monday, June 8, the Lord Chief Justice of England came forward, in the presence of Justices Blackburn and Lush, to express his total dissent from several important points in the charge to the grand jury recently delivered by Mr Justice Blackburn in the cuseof iix-GovernorEyre. Hislordshipexplained, that while ho concurred with his learned brother as to the statement of the law affecting governors of colonies, the agreements went no further. On the application of tho law to the particular case — that is, on the conduct of Mr Eyre, taken along with any grounds of justification that might be pleaded, the judges, he asserted had given no opinion ; nor did they consider that anything beyond the strict legal doctrine of the law wou'd be necessary for the guidance of the jury. The Chief Justice went on to state at length, various grounds on which he entirely differed from the recorded charge of Mr Justice Blackburn. He " emphatically repudiated" all t<yrapathy with the passage or the direction of his learned brother which represented tho removal of Gordon as legally justifiable, and he commented with warmth on the fact that his own charge in the case of " The Queen v. Nelson and Brand" had thus been authoritatively overruled. Mr Justice Blackburn's reply to this statement of his senior was temperate and guarded, and it certainly exonerates him from everything like an unjustifiable misrepresentation of the view of bis brother judges. His own mind, he says, having been full ol the subject , he probably omitted to indicate the exact lino at which the ascertained concurrence of his brethren ceased and his own opinionß were left unsupported.