YANKEE BOUNCE.

Evening Post, Issue 23, 6 March 1865, Page 3

YANKEE BOUNCE.

The New York Time", in a leading Article on the answer of Mr. Keward refusing to allow the XI 7,000 raised at a fancy bazaar in Liverpool for the Confederate prisoners, to hi applied to that purpose, thus, in the true spirit of Yankee bounce, refers to the tone of Mr Seward's letter : - "This quiet spurning of the British impertinence fa one of the best indications that the full self-poise of conscious strength has at last been attained by our people. The time was wh.n Englishmen could n<»t have taken 0 tithe of this liberty toward us without its exciting a universal ferment. Onr public presses of all parties would have bubbled and frothed as if 'twere some mortal grievance. And yet when we know that we have ten times the strength, \ve bear it with ten times the composure. Not only all the insults of the British people in their individual capacity are coolly borne with but the more positive injuries of the British Government itsef, particularly the depredations upon our commerce, committed through its default by British-built ships, mnnned by British crews, and sailing often under the British Rug. We know that we possess the power, without taking away a single soldier now facing the rebels, to brush away Canada like gossamer ; and without taking a single vessol from our blockade, to sink every ship in the British navy as if they were cockle-shells. Yet we take little or no trouble to put England and Englishmen on their behaviour. Whatever does not seriously damage us we let pass with but a scornful word or two. Whatever does seriously damage us, we quietly reserve for future settlement." The New York Daily Times tnkes another and a widely different view of the matter. It says :— " We believe that every rightminded American citizen, nnd we are sure that every intelligent foreigner, will consider Mr. Seward's correspondence with Mr. Adams, in relation to the proffered aid of British subjects to Confederate prisoners of war, as ill-timed, impolitic inhuman in sentiment, and discourteous in expression. We regard it as simply the most disgraceful exhibition of official arrogance, petulence, nnd petty insolence connected with the history of American diplomacy. If the intention was to provoke a hostile feeling on the part of the British people toward our government, imprudent and wicked as the object- would be, a thousand opportunities would offer for its attainment by means less calculated to render our Administration contemptible in the estimation of civilised powers. Even divesting the proffer of bssistan(*e,gf,its character of benevolence, it was, nevertheless, couched in courteous language, and with a strict observance of the, forms of etiquette, and demanded from the^ffieial to whom it was addressed an answer equnlly temperate and dignified. A formal objection would have answered every legitimate purpose, but Mr. Seward has innJe it the occasion to convey a wanton insult not only to those immediately concerned in the offer, but to the British race, and to British nationality. . . . In the name of the American people, we pronounce the letter of their Secretary of State a disgrace to him, to them, and to our nationality. Every line of it is a studied and uncalled for affront to the British people."

Mr. Warden Wood, in his leport from Nokomai, dated February 13th, says— "The rush to ' Paddy's Alley,' mentioned in my last report, has proved that there is a large extent of country for sluicing, with washdirt from 4 to 10 feet deep, returning from 2grs to half a pennyweight to the tin dish, but water is an scarce, and the weather lately so dry, that little can be dune till water races are brought in. The population at Switzers is on the increase. There are 50 or 60 men on Boundary Creek, I believe all doing well. When on my monthly visit this week to SwitCers, I proceeded on to the ' Mafaura' gold field, and found a population of 600 men, all getting gold. Unless the terraces, now being prospected, or a second bottom be struck with good gold, I do not think that this Held will be an important gold field, though it will in all probability, maintain a population of say 300 men for oome years to come. There is also a small rush to * Ligars' Old Station, ' Black mount,' on the Waiou, but men who have prospected the Te Anau and Wiiou country do not put much faith in it. Estimated population 890." An elderly gentleman, travelling in a railway carriage, was amused by a constant fire of words between two ladies. One of them ut last kindly inquired if their convocation did nut make his head ache ; when he answered i with a good deal of ingenuousness, " No, ma'am, I've been married twenty-eight years." Sarah, Duchess of Marlbornugh, once pressing the Duke to take some medicine, with her usual warmth said, " 1,11 be hanged it it do not prove serviceable." Dr. Garth, who was present, exclaimed, "Do take it then, my Lord Duke, tor it must bo of service one way or another." Mr. Justice Gould, trying a case at York, had proceeded about two hours, when he observed, " Here are only eleven jurymen in tho box, where is the twelfth ?"—«• Plea«e yon my lord," said one of tha eleven, "he hat gone away about some other business— bat he hat left his verdict with me."