THE WOOLHOPE CLUB. 



Our Herefordshire Club being the hosts, and the scene of exploration being 

 within the limits of our county, we commence with their proceedings. A party 

 of the members assembled at G a.m. at the Green Dragon Hotel, whence they 

 were conveyed in a brake to the Somers Arms, Eastnor. On their way between 

 Ledbury and the latter place, the song of that delicious warbler, the nightingale, 

 was heard frequently. On reaching the Somers Arms, the members breakfasted, 

 and then proceeded to transact their business. The chair was filled by the Rev. 

 T. T. Lewis, the President, who, in opening the proceedings made a very feeling 

 allusion to the great loss which the Club had sustained by the sudden and 

 lamented death of their late Hon. Secretary, M. J. Scobie, Esq., whose talent, 

 business habits, perseverance, and integrity had procured for him the esteem of all 

 who knew him. To Mr. Scobie's exertions the Club was indebted, not only for 

 its formation, but for the remarkable success which had hitherto attended its 

 proceedings. He could not trust himself to express his feelings at the suddenness 

 and conflicting nature of the calamity with which it had pleased Providence to 

 visit the family of their deceased friend ; and would therefore pass from that 

 topic to express his gratification at the prospect of the loss which the Club had 

 sustained being likely to be made up, to a considerable extent, by a relative of 

 their late lamented Hon. Secretary, who had kindly consented to be nominated 

 as his successor. 



Dr. Bull, in moving a resolution of sympathy with Mrs. Scobie, and the other 

 relatives of their lamented friend, remarked that he fully concurred in all that 

 had been said by their worthy President. The sudden death of their late Hon. 

 Secretary, with whom he had had the happiness of an intimate acquaintance, 

 had affected him more than he could express ; and he felt how great a loss the 

 Club had sustained in the death of one, whose talent and energy had done so 

 much for it. In every relation of life, their late Hon. Secretary was all that 

 could be desired : and he (Dr. Bull) had the greatest possible pleasure in submit- 

 ting to the meeting a resolution, by which the Club's sense of the great loss which 

 it had sustained by Mr. Scobie's death, should be recorded upon its minutes. He 

 then moved :— "That the Members of this Club, before proceeding to the election 

 of a Secretary, record their sense of the very great loss they have sustained by 

 the awfully sudden removal of Mr. Scobie ; and their united admiration of the 

 sobriety and integrity which marked his public and private character. And that 

 a copy of this resolution be presented to Mrs. Scobie, with the expression of the 

 deepest sympathy of the whole Society, in the lamentable loss with which it had 

 pleased Almighty God to visit her." 



Mr. Flavell Edmunds seconded the motion, remarking that, from an intimate 

 acquaintance with their late esteemed Secretary, he could also fully concur in the 

 expres.sions of esteem and regret which had been uttered by the President and 

 Dr. Bull. Since the formation of that Club, in particular, he had liad abundant 

 opportunity of seeing and admiring the excellencies of their deceased friend ; and 

 no death, out of the range of his own kindred, had shocked and grieved him more 



