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 Dreadfaa Explosion. New York papers give full details of the bursting of the boilers of the Steamboat New Eng iand, on her passage from New York to Hartford, on the 9th instant. She had about one hundred passengers on board, and when the last accounts left, fourteen had died, and some others was not expect ed to recover. Twenty odd persons were very much scalded. The explosion took place about three o'clock in the morning, while the boat was landing passengers at Essex, small village near the mouth of the Connecticut river. Both boilers ex- ploded at the same instant. The .concus- sion ssas tremendous. Persons who lived three miles from the place were sakenrd from their sleep by the shaking of their houses. The whole of the upper works Tn the centre and after part of the boat, were shattered to fragments, and, with a greater part of the baggage of the passen- gers, scattered to the four winds. The engine at the moment, was not in notion and, III addition 10 this eulpable negligence, 1t IS stated, that she had race, on going out from New York, sg:.th enc of tie Providence line of boats, which continu- ed for several hours.

 We believe, that to these two causes, on the Western waters as well as every where else, may be traced the numerous acci- dents which are recorded; and to proven ton of them, should public attention be di- rected. No matter how short the delay at any place, the engine should be kept go- ing; negligence in this case, should be pun ished by the inflicton of severe penalties upon the captains and engineers of boats. The national legislature should provide for the punishment of this, and the other of- fence, of boat racing; and thus afford some guarantee of the lives of onr citizens, a. gainst the ignorance. the carelessness, and the recklessness, of nayigators of steam vessels.-Ib.