The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-11 00:00:00

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TILE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.—Advices from Newbury-
port (N.A.) mention that Captain J. W. Dodge, of
the schooner Isabella, had fallen in with people who
informed him that some Esquimau' Indians had
picked up a cask, inside of which was a tin canister,
containing papers, which were brought into Indian
Harbour to Captain Norman's trading post on the
20th of July.
The papers were said to contain information rela-
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tive to the expedition of Sir John Ross, but the
nature of the information Captain Dodge could not
learn, as they were sent to Sandwich-bay under seal,
to be shipped to England by the schooner Escort, of
London.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
10 to 6 agstlMr. Gratwicke's Landgrave—taken
12 to 1 agst Sir R. Bigot's Essedarius—taken
12 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Backbiter
20 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Wanota
20 to 1 agat Mr. Pilling's Lady Eden
25 to 1 agst Mr. Edwards na Bolingbroke—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Cariboo
30 to 1 agst Mr. Nevill's Letitia
30 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Legerdemain
33 to 1 agst Mr. J. Scott's Mnlgrave
35 to 1 agat Mr. Mangan's Russborough
At the commencement of business 2 to 1 was laid to a
considerable amount agst Landgrave, but at the close
10 to 6 was taken freely. Essedarius was backed for
about 100 L at 11 and 12 to 1, the other horses quoted
being almost friendless.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
9 to 2 agat Mr. Gratwicke's Landgrave--5 to 1 taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's The Italian
CLEARWELL STAKES.
Even on Mr. Halford's Prime Minister
4 to 1 agst Mr. H. Johnson's Confidence
DERBY.
20 to 1 agst Lord Entielo's Hernandez
1,000 to' 30 sgst Mr. Greville's Ariost.-,—taken
500 to 15 agst Lord Eglinton's Bonnie Dundee
PERTH RACES.—i.% EDNESDA.Y.
The Caledonian Handicap of 25 sovs. each, 15ft, and
only sif declared, with 150 added. Two miles. (12
Subs., 7 of whom declared.)
Mr. J. Brown's Haricot, 3 yrs, 7st Sib Oates) 1
Mr. Thrift's John Dory, 4 yrs, 7s, 41b ...(liobertson) 2
Lord Eglinton's Elthiron, 4 yrs, Bst 101b...(MarloA ) 0
6to 4 agst Eithiron, and 2to 1 agst Haricot. Won
Eltuiron ran the wrong hide of a post, and was
Fulled up.
Plate of 501. given by the Perth Hunt. Heats once
round and a dis.
Mr. Jolly's Swaledale, 4 yrs (G. Oaks) 1 1
\lr. Anderson's Sir Astley Cooper, 3 yrs
I)uke of Athol's Pawnbroker, aged 0 3
Mr. Smith's Gulliver, 4 yrs ... 2 dr
Lord Eglintou's Belus. 4 yrs 3 ilr
Ur. Roman's Aspasia, 5 yrs 4 dr
Captain Thldan's Woodland, 4 yrs
sto 2 agst Gulliver, and 3 to 1 agst Belus Won
cleverly.
NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING —The di-
rectors of the Eastern Counties R.iilway have announced
several special trains for the ensuing races. On Mon-
(lay and Tuesday trains (first-class carriages oily) will
leave Bishopsgate station at 8 30, A M., returning from
Newmarket ak 5 45, and on Tuesday, Cesarewit,di day,
cheap train will leave at 7, A.M., returning at 6.45,
P.M., the fare for the double j. uruey 7e. only ; and on
oaturday next, for the convenience of fiainers, &c., a
train will run from Chesterford to Newmarket, in con-
nexion with the 2 30 P M. train from London.

STEAM-BOAT EXPLOSION AT LONDON-BRIDGE.—
Yesterday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, an ace

dent happened on b-oard the screw steam-boat knoWn as the
Erin's Queen, lying off Cotton's-wharf, London-bridge,•by
which the head engineer was instantaneously killed, and the
lives of two or three others greatly jeopardized. It appears
that the vessel, which belongs to Messrs. Henderson, Oglevie,
and Co., of London and Belfast, arrived in the river on
Tuesday last, and after discharging her cargo at the above
wharf she we.. reladen with her return car4o. Last evening,
half-past five o'clock having been appointed for the time the
steamer was to start on her downward voyage, the crew
were busily engaged in getting the steam up. Whilst so
employed it was perceived that one of Ithe screws of the
" slutch-hole" was rather loese, when John Ferguson, the
engineer, and two other men, proceeded into the engine-
room for the purpose of repairing the defect. The unfortu-
nate engineer having desired one of the stokers to hold a
light fer him, was in the act of screwing up the bolt,
when it broke, and almost instantaneously the steam and
boiling water rushed out with such force as to blow the
poor fellow as far aft as the bottom of the cabin deck. The
man who was standing at his elbow with the lamp,
although struck on the arm by the iron bolt, managed to
rush up stairs, as did also another of the crew, and, strange
•as it may seem, neither received the slightest personal
injury. Ferguson, the engineer, on the contrary, was
quickly covered with boiling water, and owing to the clouds
of steam which ascended the hatchways, some time elapsed
before any one could descend to render the least assistance.
At length, the steam having somewhat subsided, Captain
Silly, the master of the stesm-packet, and several of his
crew, descended, when they beheld a fearful scene, for on the
floor of the engine-house, near to the cabin deck, was lying
the unfortunate man, so scalded that when touched his flesh
peeled from his body. A medical man was quicklyhe in at.
tendance, who pronounced life quite extintt. T body
was therefore removed to the dead-house to await an in-
vest. The deceased has left a widow and two children to
mourn their loss.
COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT OLDHAM.—ELEVEN
Lives LOST.—An alarming accident occurred on Wednesetty
last, in the coalpit of Mr. Thomas Butterworth, " enabled
Bent, Oldham. From the particulars we have been eeabled
hurriedly to learn, it appears that about two o'clock on that
day, while some twenty rive or thir y colliers were at work in
the mine, a portion of the roof fell in and broke the wire-
gauze covering of one of the Davy limps with which all the
miners were provided. The consequence was the inataatrititeriged-
nition of a mass of carburetted hs drogen which had g
in the mine, caw ing a most terr tic explosien, and immediate
death to those who were in the neigbourkood. Eleven bodies
have been taken from the mine, but it is rumoured that nine
or ten more have been destroyed by the awful calamity.
Ten men have been recovered alive, but it, is feared that some
of the number will not survive the injuries which they have
sustained. The mine has only been worked a few years ; but
(it is supposed chiefly in consequence of the want of an air
pit) many accidents have taken place, thoagh not attended
with such fatality as the present.
THE 13 XIG HTON B REA KW AT ER.—The Breakwater

Committee have had an interview with the directors of the
Lon,lon and Brighton Railway Company relative to the pro•
posed breakwater off Brighton; and we are informed that
the company are entitely favourable to the projoct. On
Tuesday the committee event to London for the purpose of
obtaining an interview with the directors of the Chain Pier
Company ; but in the absence of Captain Sir Samuel Brown,
the projector of the pier, the conference was poatpoLed till
Sir Samuel could atteud,—Brighton Gazette.