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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 74, 21 July 1863, Page 3

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(fROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Dunedm, Saturday, 18th July. The Aldinga, true to her time, takes her departure from here this afternoon, carrying with her a more than usually heavy mail. She "will call in at the Bluff to take in your letter bags, and leave behind her this with other communications. jN'o English mail is to hand up to the time this despatch leaves here. The news from Britain is anxiously looked for, and the present irregularity in receiving the English mails is vexatious in the extreme. After the ovation we pai 1 to the Prince of Wales and his consort, and the intensity with which we mourned over the late heavy calamity and loss of life by tha sinking of the Pride of the Yarra, Dunedm h«s sunk into absolute quiesoncc. We rejoiced as a people never before rejoiced on the last day of last month, and we lamented with ix pathos which was quite heartiording to all save he hotel-keepers, who turned both affairs to very profitable account. One worthy host informed me the other day that the late fearful accident was a good hundred notes in his pocket, and that he never, in a long experience, knew a people so thirsty in their grief. Captain Adams and his chief mate, as 1 informed you in my last, have been brought in by a coroner's jury guilty of manslaughter. '1 c bail demanded by the Coroner is so heavy that both of the uufor .mate men, in default of rinding sureties, have been cast in v prison. It is thought that when their trial conies off at the criminal sittings, they will escape with a mere nominal punishment. Trade is all but stagnant in Dunedin. The bad news from the Dunsta.ii and f.-e little prospect cf the river subsiding suf 'r.i'iitly to enable the diggers to work their bed claims this season, has had the ba 1 effect of temporarily winding up many of the storekeepers. These are unable to meet their liabilities which reacts upon the merchants here, who look to the banks for sympathy and assistance, but so far u.s 1 can learn, very litile of either is forthcoming Whether the new rush at llogburn will set thin s to rights again, I cannot t-av. The sanguine speak hopefully and are always chec ing up, but the desponding shake their heads and doubt amazingly. Early next month the new batch of Provincial Councillors sue to bu tailed together for the transaction of business, of which there will be no small amount on the notice papers. The civil sittings at tlie Supreme Court have terminated, and the jurors, after many weeks of clos© attendance, have been ilismissed to their several homes and pursuits, the Judge even refusing to recommend that tlieir services should be pecuniarly considered. Tins is hard. Not a, bad device the following: — A photographer of my iicquaintir.icc, living not fifty yards from wlieie i am writing this, was engaged by a " gent" to t;ike his portrait. The attitude is ratner sensational, the gent in question well known and never to bu mistaken from his portrait. Not calling to pay for the result of the artist's manipulative skill, that worthy has stuck the unpaid likeness to Ins door-post with an intimation that " this party is requested to cull and pay for his portrait.'' There hss been anemci'fc in our gaol, headed by seveia hardened ruflians who have refused to do any work or allow the well disposed tv do otherwise than themselves, until the Superintendent had granted them an interview, that they might explain soins grievance, which, so far as I have been abl* to ascertain, is altogether imaginary. It may be well conceive d that the Superintendent was not likely to be bullied into compliance, so these worthies for more than a week kept the officers and residents in the vicinity of the prison in a constant stats of disquiet and alarm by the mo.st unearthly yells ana shrieks which ever assailed human ears. lam happy to read the following in this day's issue of the Dai/;/ Times : — •' Three ef the most ref; actor\ prisoners in the gaol were yestesday flogged, — Morris and Buigess receiving twenty-four lashes each, and 1 hives twelve lashes, he being also sentenced to seven days' solitary confinement. We are assured that the fellows bore their punishment with much stolidity ; and there- is no doubt that none of them were for the first time made ■ cqui-inted with the cat-of-nine-tails. But allho.i h the t. ree prisoners behaved as though they cared little for the lash, the knowledge that they were to be flogged has produced, as far as can be tested, a very salutary effect on the minds of the bulk of those who were lately so loud in their declarations that they would never work again until they had been allowed to see the Superintendent, and to state to him their pretended grievances. The sentence of flogging was of a sort which it was evidently believed would not be come to by the Visiting Justices ; and even a hardened criminal is likely to bo checked when he has oncu had the conviction forced upon him, that punishment, prompt, stern, and peculiarly unpleasant, is certain to be meted out to him fur any breach of prison rules. The notorious Garrett proved himself an exception yesterday. Just before the first man was " seized up," Garrett shouted to the officers, 'You you'll have your throats cut for this yet.' Several prisoners who joined in the emcutc have been sentenced to a week's solitary confinement." The Fitzroy Iron Works in Sydney are, so we learn by the last advices in Dunedin, about to commence the manufacture of iron — a most important enterprise, and one lam told likely to turn out a most profitable speculation for the shareholders. The quarantine buildings, on one of the islands at Port Chalmers, were yesterday reported to be fit for the reception of inmates ; workmen having been busily employed in getting them ready. During the afternoon a telegram was sent from the Government, directing that any of the passengers on board the Victory who wished to go ashore should be conveyed to the island. The Emigration A&ont lias been instructed to supply fresh meat and milk for the use of all who land, other provisions being found by the ship. The Mount Wcndon Station has been sold at auction by Driver, M'Le v, and Co., of this city, for L 9050, to John Macintosh, Esq., of Mataura. The station comprises 35,000 acres, with 4000 sheep running thereon. Sickness just now is, I rr jrcfc to say, very general. Low fever, dysentery, and rheumatic affections being the disorders.