AN ARISTOCRAT'S DEBASEMENT.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 141, 13 February 1886, Page 4

AN ARISTOCRAT'S DEBASEMENT.

A New York " Herald's " Lonyon special says : The London Street Directory names 2, Sheffield- street, in aristocratic Kensing. ton, not far from Campden Hill, as the resience of the Marchioness of Westmeath. The Marquisate of Weatmeath is extinct,, but the rarldom stilljexists. Late, Wednesday evening the Marchioness was arrested in High-street, Nottingham, for being drunk and disorderly, and for flourishing a shillalah, which, when produced in Court, she called her wand. The magistrate fined her ladyship three shillings and sixpence. In 185S, aB Maria Jarvis, she married the first and only Marquis of Westmeath. Four years later, for gross misconduct, she was divorced. He married again, and then her Ladyship married a young ne'er-do-well, who was too poor when in court to sign a bond to keep the peace. She exists upon a family pension, and does not disdain public houses of questionable society, The police, however, do not allow utter loss of self-respect to come between her wants and her nobility. The family solicitor in court said that measures would now be taken to shut her up in an asylum,