A CHARACTER IN HER WAY.

Southland Times, Issue 3136, 1 July 1878, Page 3

A CH ARACTER IN HER WAY.

. -, y,T; A correspondent. wads the '. N. Z,. . Herald* the following biographical '\ sketch, which explains an Hem of news in the Bnes mail summary to tbe folj} loving effect : -1 *-' A trial, exciting y Boeh interest, was held, last, \\eek,,in. t jibe Court of Common £leas, in which r"» irsll*ktiown miliinsr, Madame Rosalie \ mi Mr Tbistlethwoite, a gentleman w%a^uf l^;<Wa^ forlgo^d^supf>lie<_ (hiring eigH^mbidths., to his wife, who used to. preach' in pub- ;; Ireland whoso debts be -had? paid 6n ; , |: several occasions. The jury found for . the defendant." Mrs Thistletbwaite, ' alias Laura Bell^first appeared in Dublin about 1848, and -was from the_ . North df Ireland; and Supposed to be* of jjeod family. "Btie~lpon became . a, '.-■\ leadrag%t£tb^OgWb^ ; and quiet manners. In ;!'8d1, during^ tlie^Ex^bTtion/shecameout in LobdoD as queen '6$ the demi 'raonde. < She generally appeared in Rotten Bow in the morning riding a magnificent ebesnut hors«,:whidh showed herune figure off , to great advantage In the. afternoon, elegantly .dreßaed, she drove a| most recherche , pony carriage with a splendid pair of ponies which she man_^Nl witbeonsummate^ ? Bbeibob .;*' became 'tlie^rage, ' : 'aß'' si ßhe ''far" ;snr s passed all her colleagues, though there , were many beautiful women in London : at that time. She soon became rotowith the NepauIcie Ambassador^ an affair which waa ; greatly talked about, at that time at .the different clubs'. She shortlyafters wards married Mr Thiatlethwaite/quite £•' a young man; who had Just come out .tin London, and retired into private ab^ut tbe^ei? 18651 public p^aching^on Sunday, after-, ;</ n^pjbali^tlie.' HaiibVeß: ', Square Rooms; f where everyone rushed; to hear her, and the square being filled with fash * iOnable carriages, more aa if for a popular concert" than a Sunday afternoon | lecture. ' Site generally, -appeared on |< tbe platform dressed in black silk, with a plaiu wbitex j collar and: cuffs, which 'Showed "Off her still beautiful i figure to great advantage. She lectured (^wub'-jpeat ability, and told many home "'^truths? to the fashionable world, and 4was then very popular. It was said 'at the time that ehe did a great deal and interested herself greatly _pjjp trying to reclaim fallen women, and ? what ber husband consented to what '■ ihewasidoing. "Onida M is supposed /Jb have taken her as one of her prinj^^pal characters in a,celebratcd novelJpThe foregoing paragraph in the j3uez 'ilbews seems to contradict the idea that had .altered altogether for the r£.g<> od - • ■ ■