"When the fierce North Wind, with his airy forces, Rears up the Baltic to a foaming fury, And the red lightning, with a storm of hail, comes Rushing amain down." FM. _Equestrian Statues._--I have heard it remarked that, with the solitary exception of the Duke of Wellington, there is no instance of an equestrian statue being erected to a subject, in Her Majesty's dominions. Is this so? FM. _Plays in Churches._--In Cooke's _Leicestershire_ the following is given as an extract from the church register of Syston: "1602, paid to Lord Morden's players because they should not play in the church, 12d." Who was this Lord Morden; and did the chartered players claim the right of their predecessors, the "moralitie men," to use the church for their representations? Was the 12_d._ given as a bribe to the players to induce them to forego their claim, or expended in the hire of a place more in accordance with the parish authorities' ideas of propriety? EMUN. "_The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong._"--Where is this oft-quoted line to be found, and who is the author of it? It is marked as a quotation in Pope's _Dunciad_, book iv. S. WMSON. _Serius, where situated?_--In requesting the information upon a point in geography with which this note concludes, I shall not, I trust, incur censure for introducing it by quoting a few of the lines in which the poet Vida conveys to parents his advice upon the choice of a master for their sons: "Interea moniti vos hic audite, parentes, Quærendus rector de millibus, eque legendus, Sicubi Musarum studiis insignis et arte, Qui curas dulces, carique parentis amorem Induat, atque velit blandum perferre laborem. * * * * * Ille autem, pueri cui credita cura colendi, Artibus egregiis, in primis optet amari, Atque odium cari super omnia vitet alumni." I cannot pass unnoticed his counsel to masters: "Ponite crudeles iras, et flagra, magistri, Foeda ministeria, atque minis absistite acerbis. Ne mihi ne, quæso, puerum quis verbera cogat Dura pati; neque enim lacrymas, aut dulcis alumni Ferre queunt Musæ gemitus, ægræque recedunt, Illiusque cadunt animi," &c. Vida exemplifies the consequences of the furious character and raging conduct of a master, in the harsh treatment of his defenceless flock (_turba invalida_), in the instance of a lovely boy, who, forgetful of fear, "Post habuit ludo jussos ediscere versus." The terror excited by the savage pedagogue throws the poor little fellow into a fatal illness: "Quo subito terrore puer miserabilis acri Corripitur morbo; parvo is post tempore vitam Crescentem blandâ coeli sub luce reliquit. Illum populifer Padus, illum _Serius_ imis _Seriades_que diu Nymphæ flevere sub undis." _Vidæ Poet._, lib, i. 216. &c.