LORD BEACONSFIELD ON ENGLAND'S ATTITUDE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 20, 23 January 1877, Page 4

LORD BEACONSFIELD ON ENGLAND'S ATTITUDE.

7 : ,. We .f hink; moat Englishmen outside .-,., im sphere, of party politics at. Home, and sufficiently cool headed to look at the aspect of affairs in Europe through r other than sentimental spectacles, --will be ;; ptddd of the language ottered by the Earl of Beaconsfield at the Lord Mayor's banquet, and will 1 feßl that i|t has 'the 'bid national ring in it, and that It is worthy of a people with a thousand years ,of illustrious history, behind it, aod with an empire to guard and keep whic)a imposes upon it responsibilities Veo^mensurate with its greatness , and, a ..: tone of feeling as lofty as the .eminence to which it has attained. ..;..: n .. [ _ "England,'? said he, " is the conntry of all Others whose policy is peace. -Wis ■ haver nothing to gain by war. We are essentially a non-aggressive power. There, are Jno cities .and: noi provinces c'tbAt we 'desire to appropriate. We havp •'biifyt.rup^an empire of which we are _>rbud, arid our proudest boast is this, 'that the empire subsists as much upoh sympathy as upon force. 'Bud 1 if the struggle comes, it should also be recol- ' "leet j'a that thiare is rib country so prepared for war ns England— -(lottfi' ani) renewed flheere)-— because jhere is np ■: country, whose resources are so greaj. ;:"-. la<a. r righteous cause— -and v I l trust it will never embark in war except in a , y righteous cause, a cause that, concerns her liberty, her independence, or her empire— Englaud is not a country that * will have to enquire whether.;She - ceh enter"upori a second or third c^mpaigcj; in a ..righteous: cause England will cpoimerice a fight that will not end until ' right is done." These are wardsi that are : calculated to show -the rulers 1 -and statesmen of Europe (hat England is spmething more than a nation of shop-keepers; ..that the . ledger and the day bouk;are not all in ail; ami; that the English people hava not yat ssvered itameeivo* " 'trc-m .''lbs ', u- ficlitioTH' of Oie '.i"B>, ;n.7 '-'- Vohnn. -; ■*' ; >-" -if i -->:;-,? jy^-. ,y., <c rttjuiii;,, otic ui Ui v.. i..^ j;.(..m0 ot ihe worl ; --. for Wie liuie io conic.