The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-08 00:00:00

responsible for a situation the dangers of which are
foreseen by his Imperial Majesty, which dangers he
has tried to avoid by all possible means.
" He is anxious to prevent political rivalries from
widening the complications, already so grave, of the
Oriental question by the complications of the actual
state of Europe.
" It is for that purpose that his Imperial Majesty
has proposed the principle of non-intervention,
which he is ready to observe as long as it will be
respected by the other Powers.
" However, that principle could not imply in-
difference. Therefore Russia, like the Powers which
have joined it, could not renounce the generous
mission conscientiously imposed on the Great
Powers on occasions where humanity should im-
periously demand it.
" Finally, it is why the Imperial Cabinet, while
avoiding every isolated action which would aggra-
vate the actual complications in the East, will be
always ready to take part in a European concert
whose aims would be to solve them. We are con-
vinced that such a concert would only tend to an
equitable end, worthy of the Christian Powers, in
accordance with the general interests of peace and
civilisation, to which political rivalry and exclusive
views must give way.
" It is in that sense that you will express your-
self with the Government at which you are ac-
credited.—Receive, &c.,

(Signed)

" GORTCHACOW."

EARL GROSVENOR AT CHESTER.

Earl Grosvenor, M.P., and Mr. W. H. Glad-
stone made interesting speeches at the public
luncheon given after the inauguration on Tuesday

of the new Grosvenor Park, presented to the citizens
of Chester by the Marquis of Westminster.
Among the invited guests also were the noble
Marquis and the Marchioness of Westminster, Lady
Constance Grosvenor, Lord R. Grosvenor, Lady

Theodora Grosvenor, Lord Belgrave, the Right Hon.
W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone, the Bishop of Chester

and Mrs. Graham, the Dean of Chester, the Mayor
and Mrs. Johnson, the Recorder of Chester, Colonel
Call (18th Royal Irish), &c.
The Mayor of CHESTER, in proposing the health
of the noble donor of the park, remarked that the

Marquis of Westminster was not an ordinary noble-
man, and possessed virtues which rendered him the
most deserving and popular landlord known in that
part of the kingdom. (Cheers.)
The Marquis of WESTMINSTER made a feeling re-
ply, expressing a hope that the park might prove a
place where in future ages the public would obtain
healthful recreation.

Mr. Sheriff BOWERS proposed " The Health of the
Members for the City, Earl Grosvenor and Mr. W.
11. Gladstone," a toast that was most enthusiastically

received.

Earl GROSVENOR, M.P., in responding, alluded to
his 20 years' Parliamentary experience, and then

made some remarks on the occasion of their assein

bling on that day. The noble lord said—l think you
will agree with me that the guiding principle of my
father's life, which he has endeavoured, and I believe

successfully, to hold before him, has been to do his
duty in as straight a line as possible. (Applause.)
You will agree with me in this—that certainly to
bis own tenants, with whom here in Chester we
have most to do, that has been the guiding principle
of his life for the 22 years during which he has held
the large estates he inherited from my grandfather.
(Applause.) Happily, he has not confined his prac-
tice to the welfare and well-being of his own tenants,