Star.
London, England, 1824-05-27 00:00:00

PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 2U.

The Constitution, one of the Baltimore line, which
had the mail on board, left that city at the usual time
yesterday, say five in the afternoon, on her route down.
When off North Point, saw a steam-boat with a signal
of distress flying, enveloped in smoke; bore down,
hailed, and found it was the Eagle, Captain Weems, on
her first trip from Annapolis to Baltimore, having, un-
fortunately, burst her boiler about fifteen minutes
before, which occasioned the death of one man, a sol-
dier, who had recently been discharged, and five per-
sons wounded, some of whom dangerously ; the boat
on fire, and a complete wreck. Captain Robinson, of
the Constitution, at the urgent request of the unfortu-
nate survivors, and after consulting his passengers, took
the boat in tow, and returned to Baltimore for medical
aid, and left these at nearly one this morning. Had not
the Constitution fostunately fell in %id) this vessel, the
great probabiiity is that in less than an hour she would
have burnt to the water's edge, and every soul on board
peri,hed, as it was nearly dark when this circumstance
occurred.

Tie folLywing extract of a letter from the Agents to
Lloyd's, at Genoa, dated the 15th instant, is calculated
to allay the uneasiness which the recent intelligence
from Alexandria excited in the commercial world :
" Information has arrived at Malta, stating that the Admiral,
previous to his sailing for Algiers, had received intelligence of the
arrival of a squadron of men-of-war at Alexandria, avid had sent
off one of hi; cruizers to reconnoitre them."

We regret to learn, that while an increased liberality
is manifested in EnglanJ, opening the Public Institu•
tions, a contrary disposition is displayed in France, vvlicre
access to everything worth seeing was formerly so easy ;
and at the very time that the only national collcctiun of
pictures we possess, the Angerstein gallery, is thrown
open to the Public, the Louvre, in Paris, is closed. This
we learn by the following extract from a private late,
from Paris:

" PARIS, MAY IL

.4 Our countrymen who intend to visit this metropolis, for pur-
poses either of amusement or curiosity, will be surprised, upon
their arrival, at the difficulty of access to all the public places,
which are more immediately under the superintendence of Govern-
ment. That freednm of admission to institutions established or
supported at the public expense, which was a boast of France,
and so often instanced as an example to England, no longer exists

Strangers do not experience, as formerly-, courtesy from the
tors or civility from the door-kewers.

" At; arplicaion for admission is laconically answered by' W 1 I„
is your permit Your passport now avails you nothing:
the difficulty and truttb!..• in obtaining this permit is stith 11., rodrt, r
Most people from attempting it. My own case is an inqar.;..
Bring attached to the Arts, I journeyed here, foe the 4,,ie
studying in the galleries of the Louvre and Luxembourg ;
repeated applications. requesting a con.ideration of the expanse
1 had been at, and the loss of time (most important to a priiiissioad
person) that I bad suffered. I was notwithstanding delayed
days, and obliged to expend little short of a pound in ices, before
I obtained the permission—not for studying, but of a giimp•e u:
Louvre, while the Luxembourg [ have never been suffered to etth,
It is true that there is a plea for some restrictions ;1 the „..intt.:
destruction of a picture of Rubens by some pasin:
but it is neither liberal or politic to ex:end th.-ni to ltirettntr,.
who cannot be imagined to hay, a disposition iq tles:r•i- that
they have journeyed so far to behold. But even thi ile•truction
a picture is nut merely looked upon with sn openle
dared in Paris to be an artifirt: of the Authorities. Bliesibilitt
attached to this, by the fact, that the picture ,le-troyed w,, r„.
of Iluhens' worst piT:ormancet.; it was of a nature and
a situation by ;:o means likely to attract the attention of a p ;..,c
thus malevolently dispos2d.

"The number via.; 6711 in the eitalorte of the Louvre, the Full; •
Tournois pees el..v d'utt Chateett. The Catacombs art•
closed against the Puhlir, and are not again to be openmd. 1.;
reason given i., that an ill-disposed person inscribed sonic •ontr:. •
upon the wall derogatory to the Royal Family. Thum: t -
Institutions of Art or Zcience which are open, are to he or.-
only during one, and the same hour in the clay, su thrit you ; •
only view one in the course of the day, thus causing a .
of time, which is often of the Inmost consequence to travells.,
—lndeed, the foreigners here, who have repeatedly experielicedi‘;
mortification of denial for being a little before or a hide alter th
time, universally 41i:elate, that they infinitely prefer the prazt...?
England, where they give the doorkeeper a trifle, and kilter .4 s,11:•:.
time of the day best suits their own convenience; besides, ;bib pm-.
ters' fee, though not a demand, is now made a point of li.einur
France, and with most people a point of honour is nu less urgent
than a demand."