King LEOPOLD'S Ministry have made a long communication to the
Belgian Chamber of Deputies on the state of the negotiations with Holland. It contains nothing that was not publicly known before, but details clearly the mode in which the King of Holland has contrived to embarrass and finally break up the Conference, by his refusal to apply for permission to the German Diet to make the arrangement required by the Conference with respect to the partition of the Dutchy of Luxembourg. In the meanwhile, the $elgians retain a greater extent of territory than they would be entitled to were the decrees of the Conference, which they are ready to submit to, enforced ; and, what is of far more consequence, they are for the present free from paying their share of the in- terest of the national debt, all of which is borne by Holland.
The only reason which can be assigned for the continued ob- stinacy of the King of HOLLAND, is the vain hope which he cherishes of being able to regain his revolted provinces. He trusted that the Munchen-Gratz Conference would determine upon giving him assistance in the execution of this design ; but they have sent a Count CL A.MM to inform his Majesty that nothing is the way of military aid will be afforded him. Probably King WILLIAM is the only man in Europe to whom such a communica- tion would be necessary : at the same time, the Continental Despots might encourage him to embroil matters for as long a period as possible at his own expense, or rather at that of his scarcely less infatuated subjects.
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