The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-05-29 00:00:00

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• •..-. tie river to' lieptfilrde and len . the, niat day pro.'
, •eedekl to Greezieleich where the Court was. , Clement'
Adams, the " schoolmaster to the Queene's henchmen,"
has left us a description of their sailings. He tells us
how en the day of sailing the crew saluted their ac-
quaintance "one his wife, another his children,
another his kinsfolk, and another his friend dearer than
I life." The "great ships" were towed by boats and
oars down the river by mariners attired in Natchet
or sky-coloured cloth. Crowds on both sides of the
river cheered the crews as they rowed amain and
made away 'with digilence. When they reached Green-
wich the courtiers came running out, and the common
people flocked together, standing very thick upon tue
tahore. The Privy Council looked out at the windows
of the palace, and the rest ran out to the tops of the
towers • the ships hereupon discharged their ordnance.
hnd shot off their pieces after the manner of war and
of the sea; insomuch that the tops Of the hills sounded
therewith; the valleys and the waters gave an echo
and the mariners shouted in such sort that the sky.
ring again with the' sound thereof: One stood in the
poop of the .ship, and by his gesture bade farewell to
his friends, in .the best manner he could. Another
walked on the hatches, another climbed the
shrouds, another stood upon the mainyard, and
another on the top of the ship.. The only, cloud over
the undertaking Was the illness of the young king,.
Who could not come forth to see the show. At Graves-
end Cabot went on board *ith many ladies and gen-
tlemen to wish them good-bye. What cheer the
Mariners could give them was laid out for their re-
freshment, and after partaking of it, the old navigator
wished them to pray for the good fortune and pros-
perous success of the adventure, and, departing, com-
mended the expedition to the governance of Almighty
God.
It is sotnewhat curious that neither of the leaders of
this expedition were sailers. Sir Hugh Willoughby,
of Middleton, was a gentleman of ancient descent, "of
goodly personage and of signal skill in the science of
war.' On his family escutcheon were three double '
water bougets, and these were apparently a pun on the
name of his ancestor Bugg, for the celebrated Norfolk-
Howard had a precedent for his change of name, for this
.Sugg assumed the name of Willoughby and from him
Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, and the present Lord of
Wollaton and of Aliddleton derive their descent. The
father of Sir Hugh was distinguished for his military
powers, He had intermarried with the Brandons, Lady
Jane Grey, and the-Dadleys, but Sir Hugh's mother
was an Egerton of Cheshire, and a descendant of the
Gresltys. In 1542 Sir Hugh was a -soldier in Scot-
land, and distinguished himself by defending Fort
Lowder in 1549-50. His military career closed with
the disgrace of Somerset. He married a daughter of
Sir Nicholas 4treeley, a Xottinghamshire knight, and
left a son Henry behind him. Chancebur was also a
connection of the Dudleys, and owed his appointment
to Sir Henry Sidney, the father of Sir
_Philip, the
poet-knight of Zutphen.
Up to this time no English ship had doubled the
North Cape, or at all events sailed eastward of the
Wardhuys' and Willoughby's expedition seemed to
have been unforttniate from the beginning. It was
six weeks. after leaving Wapping ere the ships were
fairly at sea, Contrary winds baffled them along the
East Coast. They coiamenced their voyage on Mon-
day, the'22nd, and twenty days afterwards they were
lingering' at Gravesend. It was not really till the early
days of our July that they committed themselves to the
sea, giving their last adieu to their' native country.
Storms soon separated Chaneelour from the other ships,
but on the 14th (25th) of August the Admiral came in
sight of land, supposed to be that part of the coast of
Nova Zembla lying between the northern and southern
goose cape, " Gussinii Noss." The mainland of Russia
was first seen on the 23rd August (3rd September), and
Sir Etugh fended on that day, thus anticipating by one
day Chancelour's landing on another part of the coast.
On the 14th (25th) of September, a fresh lauding was
effected on the Lapland coast, in a bay westward of the
Island of Nokujeff, where pretty good anchorage was
found. From hence both vessels sailed in a south
easterly direction towards the White Sea, and had they .
continued that course they would either have joined
Chancelour at Htbrocksa, or reached the Monastery
of Ssolovertz, but being caught in 1:whirlpool at Cape
Natvi Noss, the ships returned to a bay supposed to be
the one in which the gaunt and rugged Island of Noku- •
jeff is situate, and this bay they reached on the 18th
(29th of September). The rest of the story is told in a
few sentences in Willoughby's journal. A severe frost
set in, there were no people, and fuel was scarce.
The sufferings of the merchants, officers, and ship's
companies were extreme. Death soon found victims
enough, for all the crews succumbed to the cold.
Sir Hugh was alive in January, and then silence
reigned over all. In the following year some Russian
fishermen discovered the vessels, and the bodies of
the dead. The Czar, Ivan Passilovetch, ordered the i
governor to seal up everything, and send the ships to
Cholmogorn.
Chancelour was more fortunate. On the 24th of
August (September 4), he cast anchor in front of the
" possad," of Nerrocksa, not far from the Korelian mouth
of the D wine. He sailed to the region of "everlasting
sunshine," "shining with a continual' light and bright-
nesse clearly upon the huge and mighty sea." He
went fifteen hundred miles by sledge to Moscow, paid
'his respects to the Czar, and laid the foundation of
ithat long peace and friendship with Russia we have
enjoyed, and which we now hope is renewed auspi-
ciously. He returned to England the following spring,
and reaped the reward of his enterprise and exertions.
When the news arrived of the sad fate of Warwick-
shire and his companions, the news excited but little
interest He was a connection, indirect it is true, of
Lady Jane Grey, and that unfortunate lady had just
ended her life on the block. People's minds were agi-
tated by the religious turmoil of the times. Thus the
memory of the chief of the first Arctic Expedition
passed away, and it has been left to Russian geo-
graphers to point to the bold, black, and rocky edge
of Nokujeff, which rises 400 feet high, is without a
monument to the English discoverer of Russia seaward
—the man who discovered Nova Zembla, the first of
the long series of Arctic discoveries of Which England
has so much reason to be proud.

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date the troubles b' -edit,or iintiflf.e tries to write an
article on political ecottoniy, !With liitfik fellows sitting
abont.the asDve debating the points of a pretty girl's ankle.

At the Philadelphia Centennial, next year, there
will be a department allotted for the exhibition of four-
months-old babies, and Pennsylvania patriots are very
generally directing the attention of their wives to the fact.
"Have you any eggs?" inquired a peaceful-looking
old man, as he leaned over the counter of a hardware store
In Ohio, recently. "No sir this is a hardware store ;we
keep nails, stoves, etc.," answered the clerk. "Well I did
want some eggs," slowly drawled the old man, "but I hain't
particular; and you may give me a pound of nails."

The following gloomy picture is drawn by an Ameri-
can editor at Pana, Illinois —"No: money in town, trains ir-
regular, no prospect of getting any money this week, eatables
scarce, nothing to buy with, starvation ten rods ahead, no
wood to cook with and nothing to cook, general rumpus in
the town, and all about nothing in particular ; whisky plenty,
water scarce, loafers in abundance."

A gentleman once paying his addresses to a young
lady, the daughter of a rich American planter, and who, of
course, might be expected to be very accomplished, en-
quired of her if she was not lonesome, there being no society
In the neighbourhood, and how she spent her time. She re-
plied that she was not lonesome, and that she amused her-
self with reading and writing. lie asked her whether she
was most fond of writing prose or poetry. " Narey one,"
said she "I write small-hand."

About six months ago a literary couple boarding to-
gether at a Chicago hotel concluded to marry, and last week
the following scrap of matrimonial talk between them was
overheard :—She: "You lacerate my soul with your vulgar
sneers." He "You have a superhuman power for evil over
my sensitive nature."

Soon after the telegraph was put into operation on
the line of the Ohito and Mississippi Railroad, in Martin
County, one of the natives stepped into the office and wanted
to know the price of flour in Cincinnati. In a few minutes
an answer came, with a charge of thirty-five cents for the in-
formation. But the rustic was too smart to be caught in that
way, and replied, "Oh, no, Mr. Telegrapher, you can't fool
me in that way. I'm not as green as you think I am. That
darn' tickin' thing of yourn han't been out of this room I I
watched it all the time I"

Mr. Damon exhibited recently the shoes of the
reigning belle of Sandusky, Ohio, which she had returned to
the maker as being too small. The Sandusky belle's is num-
bered "17, extra large," is only fourteen inches from toe to
heel, and six inches across the broadest part of the sole.
Her foot grows one size every year. She is only sixteen years
old—just budding into womanhood—and an Ohio beauty.
The girl only weighs eighty-five pounds, and has received a
commission to go west next summer to tramp grasshoppers
In Colorado.

"Well, I always make it a rule to tell my wife
everything that happens." "Oh, my dear fellow, that's
nothing!' replied his friend. "I tell my wife lots of things
that never happen at all."
A Nevada man, who had seven homely daughters,
got a newspaper to insert a hint that he had seven kegs
filled with irld in his cellar, and every girl was married in
five months.

The press and the pulpit may say what they please,
but a nitn in dove-coloured pants and patent leather boots
is not a fit person to adjust a tub for catching rain-water.

A Yankee in a trance, who was supposed to be dead,
was laid out on ice, but he awoke, and startled his watchers
by yelling, "Why don't you keep up a better fire? I was told
it was hot here."

This is how an American authoress says it feels :
"Take a man and pin three or four large table cloths about
him, fastened back with elastic and looped up with ribbons ;
drag all his own hair to the middle of his head and tie it
tight, and hairpin on about five pounds of other hair and a
big bow or ribbon. Keep the front locks on pins all night,
and let them tickle his e 3 es all day; pinch his waist into a
corset, and give him gloves a size too small, and shoes ditto,
and a hat that will not stay on without a torturing elastic,
and a frill to tickle his chin, and a little lace veil to blind his
eyes whenever he goes out to walk, and he will know what
woman's dress is." My