BLANCHARD IN AMERICA.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 21, 11 October 1842, Page 4

BLANCHARD IN AMERICA.

(From the Weekly Chronicle)

“I was lounging one day in the front of the theatre, looking attentively, and I must say admiringly, at some of the fine buildings—(very fine many of them are, my boy,)—when a young fellow .came up to me —(somebody, I suppose, I had been introduced to by somebody—my friend the colonel, perhaps). ‘ Well/ said he, ‘ I gues3 you never saw a finer city than this New York of ours, Blanchard, eh ?’ * Didn’t I?’ said I.— * Why, did you ever ?’ said he.' ‘ Once or twice, I should think I fyive, my boy/ said I. 4 Where ?’ ‘ Where ?’ said I. ‘ Why, where the devil do you think I should see such?’ * Why, you don’t mean Philadepffi, do you?’ ‘Oh! bother to Philadelp/fi/ said I. ‘Well, I calculate you mean your London, perhaps ; for I know you English are mighty prejudiced/ —‘ I do/ said I. ‘ Well, you are all of you awful fond of London; but is it as fine as New York ?’— ‘ What do' you mean by as fine ?’ ‘ Well, I mean, is it as big as New York, for one thing ?’ ‘ New York !’ said I; ‘my dear boy, New York is fine, very fine, I allow; but recollect it is New York. But if you were to take a piece the size of it out of the map of London, it would never be missed—that’s what Londofl is, my boy.’ ‘ Well, you are a strange fellow/ he said, and off he walked—(praise be given!) Blanchard was exceedingly polite and attentive to females. Billy did not approve of the New York custom of not walking with a lady arm-in-arm, as in England. ‘lt is being ridiculously fastidious/ said he. ‘ I could not endure it at all?—its barbarous. And then, my boy, the general fcraiality and reserve of the females is anything but pleasing to an Englishman like myself. It is the duty of man to be. attentive to the dear creatures, bless ’em! and not being permitted to be so, put me out of all patience, and well it might. I’ll give you an idea, my dear boy, as to how attentions to the sex are received and estimated there (I mean in, America). One evening I was going down the Broadway, broad it is,) between eight and nine, (its the longest street they have —a tremendous length—-three miles, I believe,) the mocn was shining very brightly, (they have exceedingly fine moons there, I must allow, but how they came by ’em I can’t giless,)—the frost was very severe—(no joke their frosts, ray boy,) and the streets were very slippery. (By-the-bye, there had been a heavy fall of snow.) Well, I saw a splendid figure of a female walking before me—(l ferget where I v/as going—no matter —I remember I had acted Job Thom- x berry the night before,) when suddenly down she fell; but, as Alice, in the Castle Spectre, says, ‘ she fell with all,possible decency, and took. care to hide her legs/ at least as far as I could j see, my boy. Well, I hurried to her assistance! (I was all but down myself). She was very good-looking —(many of the women are very good-looking there, I must say, up to a certain age, my boy; but they don’t wear as well as ours, though I dare say they last just as long,) —and on my expressing my hope that she was not injured by her fall, she turned round and said to me, (just as I was supporting her with my arms round her waist,) in a precious grum tone of voice,—(you remember Mrs. Davenport in Mother Brulgruddery ?—well, my boy, that was it,) —‘Clear out ‘ Clear out!’ said I. ‘ Yes, Clear out/ said she.-;— ‘ D—n it/ said I, ‘ you are all alike, men* women, and children, and you’ve no king, poor wretches!’ ”

South Sea Whale Fishery.— Yesterday morning the large ship Active, of London, ;which has been wind-bound in the Channel for nearly three weeks, came into the river,: and was hauled into the East India .dock with one of the richest cargoes of oil ever brought into this port. She has been out; fours years, and has brought home 3850. barrels oil, besides whale-bone, <kc—London Paper.