Star. — 1825-04-11 (London, England)

GHENT, APRIL 7.  While the English Government is departing from the system of commercial prohibition and intolerance which it has hitherto followed, and when all other Governments are applauding its liberal views, and will probably lose no time in following its example, the French Ministry alone perseveringly continues, in its system of commercial duties, the same retrograde course as in all its other conceptions. It is well known that M. de Villele has succeeded in acquit. leg, in the Chamber of Deputies, .such a preponderating infinence, that the Committees appointed the projects of law, are no more than the 411,40 Selma of the Ministry. It is to this very evident gladdeelt4i the Members of that Chamber that we mamoteswishat*npirit which is manifested in the report -11014103.15.01110. the new law proposed fee the du. 41464 e observe that certain concessions avs4,o, t or the Netherlands pay *arm, and in Mder to obtain As re.  ~ .1 k. )11111111  /vocation of the measures of reprisal taken by our Sow& reign; but it is also evident that these concession* are so Illusory that it is highly probable our Ministry will not be caeght by them, especially as the interest of our linen manufacturers does not oblige them to desist from requiring what is • just, since England has opened its numerous 'markets to this important branch of our national industry. It is evident that the present conduct of grant*, with respect to foreign manufactures, tends to nothing less than to insulate itself completely, and to piece it really in the situation in which Napoleon designed to place England by his Continental System.  We have received the French Papers of Friday and Saturday. Their contents are of little importance. An article in the Quatidienne talks of a quadruple alliance of the four great Powers of the Continent, with views inimical to England, and when obstacle: would be raised to the inuoduction of our manufactures, which would be favourable to French commerce.. This is one of the absurd and clumsy fabrications in which the French journalists occasionally indulge, and which have their origin in entry against this country.  New York Papers to the sth March, and Boston Papers one day later, have reached us. One of them states that the Mexican Congress had passed a decree imposing an additional duty of three per cent. on foreign merchandise sent into the interior, to enable the respective States to defray the expense of their local government, and contribute their quota of direct contributions to the general Government. These Papers contain intelligence from St. Thomas's, confirming the account of the destructive fire which took place at that town in February last. About four or five hundred houses and 100 stores bad been destroyed in the west part of the town; some accounts state the number of buildings destroyed at twelve or thirteen hundred.  We have received the Madrid Gazelles of the 26th and 27th ult. They contains letter from the late Viceroy of Peru, dated the 18th of October, and therefore nearly two months antiertor to his defeat and capture, in which he returns thanks for the favours bestowed upon him and the Army by FERDINAND, and promises to exert himself to the utmost to bring the war to a successful termination. That he seems to have kept his promise must be allowed, for he mustered and brought superior forces against the Colombians and their Allies ; but his exertions, as we have already seen, entirely failed, and the triumph of the Independents has been complete. These Gazettes also publish fresh:reports of BOLIVAR'S repulses I We know no good purpose this system of delusion can answer, since Spain has not the means of sending out a new army to South America, were troops ready to undert-tke nigh a forlorn hope.  We have received Barbadoes Papers to the ISth of February. D'Eovuze, who was convicted of the murder of his wife, had been executed. Sir HENRY WA RDE had left the Island on a tour of inspection of the garri• sons in the Leeward Islands, and J. B.