The town contributed its share to science. Here, in 1806, in Ralegh House, was born Edward Davy. In 1836 he sketched out a plan of telegraphic communication, and in 1837 he laid down a copper wire round the inner circle at Regent’s Park, and made wonderful experiments in electricity with it. In March, 1837, he took the first step to patent his invention by “entering a caveat,” and deposited with Mr. Aikin, Secretary of the Society of Arts, a sealed description of his invention, anticipating Cook and Wheatstone by two months. His invention and that of Cook and Wheatstone were held not to be quite identical. In 1839 he emigrated to Australia, leaving the field to his rivals. The inhabitants are remarkable for the love which they bear towards their birthplace. In London a society of over one hundred members of townsfolk who have left to seek their fortunes in other scenes meet at regular intervals to talk over the present local gossip and call up past associations, and to renew or form a community of feeling based on common love of home. And when the members take a holiday, the first object of their pilgrimage, the shrine towards which their footsteps are directed, is the dear old town of Ottery St. Mary. COLERIDGE. “PETER PINDAR”: THE THERSITES OF KINGSBRIDGE. BY THE REV. W. T. ADEY. Thersites only clamoured in the throng, Loquacious, loud, and turbulent of tongue; Aw’d by no shame, by no respect controul’d. In scandal busy, in reproaches bold; With witty malice studious to defame; Scorn all his joy, and laughter all his aim, But chief he gloried, with licentious style, To lash the great and monarchs to revile. —_Pope._ Buried in the vestry vault of the churchyard of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London, so near that their coffins actually touch, are the mortal remains of two remarkable Englishmen. The one is a Worcestershire worthy, Samuel Butler, the author of _Hudibras_, a caricaturist in verse of the times in which he lived. His chief character, giving name to the book by which he is best known, was suggested by Sir Samuel Luke, his puritan patron, whilst the book itself, commenced in 1663 and modelled after the Don Quixote of Cervantes, is in its faithful exposure of cant and hypocrisy scarcely inferior to its spirited Spanish prototype. [Illustration _From a Painting by Opie._] [_Engraved by C. H. Hodges._ DR. WOLCOT (“PETER PINDAR”). ]