STEVENS v. CARNEGIE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST.

Evening Post, Issue 181, 6 September 1865, Page 2

STEVENS v. CARNEGIE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST.

Sir— ln your last evening's issue I find you give particular prominence to the above case, in which I was the defendant. Your motive for so doing may be worthy enough, viz., to show forth the power of the law, and strike terror into the hearts of evil doers ; but I hardly think it fair that your reporter should have withheld a report of all the other cases before the Court, especially those of a similar nature. It is far from agreeable to be singled out as a " bright particular star" in deceiving those with whom I may be connected in business, considering that I am only a partner in a firm. I cannot help thinking with many others that your rep >rt of the case was rather one-sided, else why did you not inform the public that the pursuer got a verdict for upwards of £12 loss than he claimed, and also that, through the prompt action taken against me in the matter, I was obliged to submit to a verdict for a sum which I could have proved to be in many points unreasonable. I have too much respect for our worthy Magistrate to think for a moment that he was rendered deaf to the appeal of my solicitor for an hour's delay by the whistle of a departing steamer, but at the same time I do think that my appeal for such delay to give me time to produce evidence that a great many of the items were overcharged in the account, ought to have had his Worship's favourable consideration, seeing that I offered to put myself in charge of an officer of the Court while seeking that evidence. lam sure of this, the ends of justice would have been better served had I been, allowed this liberty. In justice to myself and the firm with which lam connected, allow me to say that it would ha ye been an easy matter for me to hove proved that Mr. Stevens' ideas as to my immediate departure by the first steamer were romantic, but as I appeared at Court within five minutes after I had received the summons, I had no time nor opportunity to refute by strong evidence his unwarrantable assertion. I regret to have to ask your permission to allow me a corner in your paper for these remarks on a matter so personal, but consider I am in a manner bound to do so in selfdefence. I am, &c, Alkx\nder Cabnegib. Wellington, sth September.

The ladies of Paris are arming themselves with steel to an alarming extent, steel waistbands and bright ribs of steel going round the entire body at about two inches distance. They wear steel ornaments of all descriptions, even ear-rings of steel, and a necklace and _ head-dress of steel bells, which jingle some- * thing after the fashion of omnibus horses, but of course more poetically. An institution for the reception of females addicted to intemperance is being provided in connection with the House of Refuge for the Destitute in Edinburgh. Compulsory detention is repudiated ; the inmates are to be at liberty to leave whenever they are so disposed.