The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-12-17
Prom The hOas journal.
FaistaiI and Dame quickly.

The Rev Mt Hudson ia lecture before The BROOKLYN
Institute thus 'cnis il iat upon these characters
He says OF Fasaf The animal susceptbilhes Of cur
nature in him carried TO their highest pitch Hs
several appenles hug their respective objects with exqus
lie gust His vast plumpness Is all mellow and piysi.
cal delight and satisfaction, and he converts il all into
thought and mirlh. Moreover, his speech borrows add
llonal flavor and effect from the thick Holdings OF flesh
which through therefore, be gories in his much
flesh. and chershes j. as being the Poereant cradle Of
tests ii bis body TAT IL enables his tongue 10 dEou
fatness and in the chambers OF his brain all the peass
rabe aglatons that pevade the structure below are Gu
riously wrought into mental DELEGATIONS. With how
keen and inexhausble relish does he pour down sack
il he tasted il all over, and through his body 10 The
ends oil his fingers and toes Yet who does NOT see maj
he has far pleasure IN dlscouIsing about than IN
drinking il And so II is through all the particulars
OF his enormous sensualies." The Tribune reporter
adds sin closing, Mr. Hudson briefly glanced al Dame
Quickly, and remarked that she could think OF
speak OF things out OF the order OF their occurrence Her
mind altogether in the ruts OF actual events Her
character throughout strongly OF her wheeabou
in life and she has much ol moral as OF intellectual
passiveness But, Notwithstanding all this, she has al
ways an odor OF womsnhood about her. Nor is her
character, with all IT'S sensual qualities, unreevsd by
those OF more generous nature Upon the WHOLE how
ever, Dame Quickly must be set down one OF the
wicked ones-a least the poet evidently meant her So
Mr. Hudson writes richly and pungently, and should
add, by the way, shrewd remark OF his on the ca
OF Prince Hal ln The qualities OF Sir John we
can easily how the Prince might be the mad.eap
revelle that history gives him out, and YET be all The
while laying in choice preparations OF wisdom and
virtue"
MIR. Bancrofrs Lecture.
The Culture, the Support, and the Objects OF AT
in Republic the subject OF Mr.. Bancroffs lee
before the Historical Society, at METROPOLITAN Hall
on Thursday evening Under the FIRST OF the three d.
visions OF his eloquent discourse, Mr. Bancroft said
Artists spring from the people In the selection Of her
dangs Nature recognises no social distinctions They
spring up at her will, like wild flowers in the forest
She calls them from obscurty her sovereign pleasure
She seeks them not courts and palaces but among
the mountains and along the streams OF free people.
They come from Vermont and Cincinnati and the prai.
RE homes OF the West Artists. TOO, love 10 work for the
people. The Inspiration OF the common mind Is more
kindDg OF encouragement than the caprces OF
an individual America has already given birth 70 art
out making any invidious distinctions, Mr. b said he
might refer TO Powers, the work OF whose chise bad
received the highest need Of appreciation a. the
With regard to the Support of Art, the distinguished
speaker observed: An should be supported in New
York by the corporation But the time for that has
not yet come. Our civil fathers have other duties
True, the high priests at home annually headed
procession 10 the temple OF Janus and drove nail
into its walls, SO our municipal rulers each year
drive nail in the City Hall, on which 10 hung The
portrait of a governor o. q mayor Their care ior
art, yet extends no further They must first give
the poor park-a place where he can walk in
health or slckness-cheer the monotony OF toll by a
glimpse OF Naturerefresh his old age the pure Of
heaven lead out his children to rejoice in the fair par
adise of The omnpresent sky Our corporation must give
TO all noeral Out lrugat ADMINISTRATION the luxury OF
clean streets vgilan and efficient police; and scourge
corruption TO awful distance from the pureus OF the
City Hail." Among the objects of art which Mr.. Ban
croft enumerated that upon which he dwelt longest
the commemoralion OF great men BY satuaTy and paint
ing He thought ought to have in this city statue
TO Chatham the champion Of liberty and Of America
Franklin, the " most sagacous dipomatis this country
has Produced" TO Washington, TO Fulton, the great
American mechanic; 10 every man Whose career has
HANGED greatly the good the glory of the country Mr.
Bancroft spoke without the assistance Of notes in most
animated manner, and his remarks were warmly ap-
4 plaaded by large audience.