The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-13 00:00:00

CHANNEL.

LWERPOOL, SATIIIIDAY.—AIt vessels arriving give
frightful accounts of the gales in the Channel outside.
The Troubadour steamer from Bristol, under the corn.
mand of Captain Beckett, arrived here this morning, re-
ports a tremendous gale off Holyhead.
The Troubadour is a beautiful craft, and her com-
mander well known to be one of the ablest and steadiest
seamen out of the port, When off Holyhead the Trou-
badour was swept by a tremendous sea, which carried
away all before it, but her skilful commander soon set
her to rights, and was enabled manfully and successfully
to contend against the striving element.
SUI

CIDE by die SWISS GIANTESS.
On Friday evening an inquest was held at the Red
House Tavern, Battersea, before Mr. Carter, one of the
coroners of the county of Surrey, and a respectable jury.,
on view of the colossal remains of Eliza Laurence, alias
Madame de Letzi but who was better known as the
Swiss Giantess, which had been picked up in the Thames,
near that place, on Wednesday morning. From the
evidence adduced it appeared that on Wednesday morn-
ing, about eight o'clock, Rock, a waterman belonging
to the Citizen Pier, near the Red House, while on the
pier, observed the body of the deceased floating up the
river with the tide, upon which he jumped into a boat
and took it on shore. On searching her pockets a piece
of paper was foetid, upon which was written, " No. 3,
Shorter 's-gardens, Seven Dials, knock twice and ask for
Emma." Rock called at the address, and on knocking
twice, as directed, was answered by Emma, a young
and diminutive female, who had been ascertained to walk
with the deceased in Regent-street and that neighbour-
hood, and on taking her to the Red House she at once
identified her old companion, the Swiss Giantess. The
last time the deceased was seen in the neighbourhood
of her residence was Tuesday night, when she called
at a public-house in Sherrard-street, Golden-square,
when she asked a female for a penny, saying she was
in great distress, and had had nothing to eat for
twenty-four hours, or very little from the Monday be-
fore. She also complained of the state of abject poverty
to which she was reduced, being without a farthing, or
a farthing's worth of property to raise money on, and
said she was going over Waterloo-bridge, and that she
had a great mind to stop there and make a hole in the
water ; but whether she had done so there or elsewhere
there was no evidence to prove. She was, however, seen
upon Waterloo-bridge at ten o'clock on the Tuesday
night, which was the last time she was seen alive. She
was 51 years of age, and had never been married, but
had one child, a son, who did not live with her.
The jury, after hearing evidence to the above effect,
returned a verdict of " Suicide, while labouring under
temporary insanity."
This woman, who was well known to the pedestrians
of London, not only from her extraordinary height, but
also her proportionably bulky appearance, passed many
years of her life in a caravan, and was conveyed from
town to town and exhibited, under the title of Madame
de Letzi, the Swiss Giantess. During this time she natu•
rally acquired idle habits, and when she was turned cut
upon the world, in consequence of her want of continued
attraction, she adopted the dissipated life which eventu•
ally led her to commit suicide, for she could not bear to
be pointed at in the street as a woman without morality
and character. She more than once went to Waterloo-
bridge with the intention of destroying herself, and was
persuaded by her companions, or those passing, from
committing the crime.

THE MODEL LODGING-lIOUSE, ST. GILES'B.—The
erection of this building is rapidly progressing. The
frontage is rather more than 90 feet, depth 30. It is to
be divided into three compartments—for married couples,
single men, and single women.
THE LATE HANGING BY THB LEG CASE.—The
man Walker, whom our readers will recollect we stated
was accidentally hung by the leg in a tree, in the parish
of Winslow, about a fortnight since, from which he was
stealing the branches, expired suddenly on Sunday last,
the 4tb instant. There is something remarkable in the
circumstances by which the deceased primarily met lib death, as considered in connexion with an incorrigible
propensity to wood stealing that has been evinced by him
for a series of years, in obtaining and conveying away of
which he exhibited an agility and deception peculiarly
his own. Although his years were upwards of seventy,
he would scale the loftiest trees, and secure his favourite
plunder under the most adverse circumstance. He was
In receipt of a pension earned in military service, and it
would appear that the martial daring of early life sur-
vived and assumed in the " old soldier" an utter defiance
of the civil penaltiei which his practices incurred. So
confirmed were his habits in this particular vice of wood
larceny, that fines and imprisonments, though frequently
visited upon the delinquent, were ineffectual in breaking
•:,'theispeH of his darling peccadillo, until, like Milo essay-
: ing t - rend -tile6(!.ak of the forest, he forfeited his life as
the penalty of his continued temerity. A coroner's in-
quest was held his remains, and a verdict of " Acci-
dotal death" recordcd.—Bucks Berea
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On Wednesday a shore boat, containing a man, a boy,
and seven women, bound from Stoneheuse to her Ma-
jesty's ship Queen, 110, in the Sound, was upset when
near her Maj.'sty's ship America, the crew of which
picked them all up. The boy is not likely to recover.
All the rest are well.
Put in this afternoon, the Greek brig Leonidas, Capt.
Dedussi, from Newcastle, but last from this port, whence
she sailed nine days since for Genoa, with loss of sails,
spars, and rigging, companion stove in, all the dry pro-
visions spoiled, and unable to cook i❑ the galley for the
last five days, owing to the severity of the weather.
3 o'CLocK P.m.—The Sir David Malcolm, emigration
ship, with emigrants on board, has just parted her star-
board chain-cable in the Sound. She is now riding at
her only remaining anchor in the northern part of the
merchant anchorage ground. It is low water now, and,
should the heavy gale blowing from the S.S.W. continue
during the rasing of the tide, her position, without as-
sistance, will be one of great danger.
Ocronen 10.—The storm from the southward con-
tinues with very little abatement. No damage has,
however, occurret' in this port.
The Trinity steam-yacht Vestal, which put in here
for coal, and was moored in the mouth of the Catwater,
in a position exposed to damage by vessels entering the
harbour, slipped her moorings yesterday afternoon with
some difficulty, and took shelter in Barnpool.
The barque Nestor, Captain I'. Smith, belonimr, to
Plymouth. came in last evening, in 22 days from Que-
bec, having left on the 17th of September. There is no
political news from the Canades. The inhabitants of
Quebec are actively occupied in rebuilding those parts
of their city which suffered so much by the late fires.
Freights offering.—London. 435. ; Southampton, 435. ;
Plymouth, 41s. Exchange, 6i premium. There was an
unprecedented quantity of timber in store, and the fl:et
had not arrived.
The Nestor has experienced very heavy weather all
the passage home. Sept. 23, fell in with the barque In-
dustry, of Sligo, Captain Barrett, bound to Quebec, and
took from her Capt. W. 11. Owen and an apprentice
lately belonging to the brig Martha, of and from Holy-
head. Left August 20, for Quebec. The Martha in let.
20, went down at two in the afternoon, having been struck
by a tremendous sea, which shifted her ballast. The
remainder of the crew are on board the Industry, which
vessel in the same storm lost her maintopmast and top-
sail, main and fore trysails, both topgallant masts and
royals. On the 21st the Industry passed a large barque
of 800 tons, probably outward bound, with loss of main-
mast and fore and mizan topmasts. On the 28th of Sep-
tember the Nestor passed a large full-rigged ship, 500
or 600 tons, with all her sails blown away. On the Bth
of October, spoke the barque Hannah Robertson, lying
to, bound from Liverpool to Cadiz, all well.
The bark Spermaceti, Captain Moon, came in this
morning, leaky, from Quebec. Left 10th of October. In
lon. 31 W., let. 47 N., saw a very large ship totally
abandoned ; in all probability the Lady Raffles, already
reported. In let. 37 or 38 N., passed a brigantine be-
longing to Dartmouth in a similar condition. Shortly
after fell in with a Scotch brig, sunk to the water's
edge, and all the masts gone. Hove to, but there was no
one on board. Saw also a disabled ship belonging to St.
Andrew's, and passed several other damaged vessels.
The Sidney emigration ship Sir D. Malcolm, in the
Sound, has been supplied with a second anchor.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, TFIREE O'CLOCK.—The wind
is gone more to the westward, and the weather has
moderated, but there is yet a very heavy sea on.
The schooner Sorciere, Cape Jausseaurand, of Guern-
sey, has just come in, in 24 days from Cephalonia, with
currants.

PROMOTIONS.
William Robson, Lieutenant, to be Commander ;
Douglas Herbert, Mate, to be Lieutenant ; Graffyd C.
Lloyd, Mate, to be Lieutenant ; and William G. Doug-
las, Mate, to be Lieutenant.
Thomas D. A. Fortescue, Mate, to be Lieutenant ;
James Pearce, to be acting boatswain to the Caledonia ;
and Charles Lemon, to be acting carpenter to the Cale-
donia.