Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1880-03-27 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

FOREIGN POLICY. Q.—What has been its Foreign Policy? A.—Minding other people's business and neglectits qwn ; employing England's might and treasure to support foreign tyrants; plundering the weak, cringing to the strong; alternately "swaggering and sneaking," and varying bluster and buncombe by bloodshed and Secret Agreements. Q.7-Has the foreign policy of the Government been successful ?  A.—lt has only just failed in every particular in every continent excepting America, and there having nothing to do they have done it successfully. Q.—Has it not succeeded in the East of Europe A.—lt has dismally and totally failed. It tried to maintain the independence and integrity of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire has been partitioned, and its independence has gone for ever. It protested against the emancipation of Bulgaria. Bulgaria has been freed in spite of its protests. It undertook to reform Turkey. Not a single reform has been accomplished. Over and above everything else it undertook to thwart Russian aggression. The result of its policy was that the Russian army was brought to Constantinople, the Sultan has practically become a Russian vassal, his fortresses have been handed over to Russia and her friends, Russia has been brought back to the Danube, and the might of the Russian Czar has become the hope and the trust of all the Christian nationalities in the East.  Q.—Then it must have succeeded in Egypt. A.—ln Egypt its failure is as complete and far more perilous than in Turkey. It tried to establish English supremacy on the banks of the Nile, and it has only succeeded in becoming joint-debt collector, with France, for Jews and bondholders, and in giving Turkey, Russia, and all the Powers an opportunity of interfering with our road to India by the Suez Canal.  Q.—Then surely its triumphs must be sought in Afghanistan. A.—ln Afghanistan the objects of its policy were to establish "a strong, a friendly, and an independent" government at Cabul. It has destroyed the only government that existed, and is reducing the country to a state of dependence which makes every Afghan our deadly foe. It seized a scientific frontier, only to be compelled to abandon it. It sent an envoy to Cabul, and he was murderod in a month. It concluded a treaty with Yakoob Khan. The treaty is torn up, and Yakoob Khan has abdicated.  Q.—Then the Government must have succeeded in South Africa?  A.—ln South Africa its object was no sooner declared to be the formation of a confederation preservative of peace, than a war broke out, in which the military resources of the British Empire were severely strained to defeat a single tribe of naked savages, and confederation became impossible. Q.—But has the Government not enormously raised England's prestige ? A.—Judge by three facts. All England's prestige at Constantinople cannot induce the Sultan to make even a beginning in the smallest province of one of the reforms he promised us to execute in all his Asiatic dominions. It demanded the punishment and dismissal of Hafiz Pacha, and the Sultan raised him to a higher rank, and decorated him with the order of the Medjedie. And all England's prestige in the East has not saved the Government from ordering its insulted envoy to sneak out of Mandalay, lest, perchance, he should be hanged by that mighty potentate the King of Burmah.