The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-07-29 00:00:00

POST OFFICE DIRECTORY OF BIR-
MINGHAM, STAFFORDSHIRE, WARWICK-
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SATUiI!).‘Y, JULY 9), 1876.

POLIL:I%

The foreign policy of Great Britain has under-
gone many changes, and has necessary varied
with the temper of the times and with the dis-
position of the men who have been at the head
of affairs. But from the earliest period when
we became a nation, it will hay.i been seen that,
although a comparatively little island, washed
by tine surges of the restles3 Atlantic, we were
not disposed to rcst in a state of insular indi -
ference to what was passing around us, or to re-
pose in a condition of calm security, undisturbed
by the alarms of war abroad. Our King and
Princes, our statemen and the chieftains of our
clans, have seldom been content to wrap them-
selves up in the peaceful contemplation of what
was merely passing around them. Centuries
ago the personal valour of some of our kings,
such as Richard I. and the skilful generalsnip