The Sixty-seventh . Protocol, to which we alluded in our last
Number, contains a new scheme; not very different from the old, for the settlement of the, eternal question between Holland and Belgium : but as all that the Conference have hitherto advanced, are schemes, and nothing but schemes, which the King of Hol- land may adopt or not as he sees fit, it is not worth while to de- velop what another week may see changed. That something must soon be done, has been said so often, that, like the Schemes of the Protocols, the announcement falls heavy on men's ears. The state of uncertainty is most disgraceful to the arbiters. The intention of an attack on the citadel of Antwerp, if the Belgians ever entertained it, seems to have been abandoned. There have been some movements in the Dutch fleet stationed in the Scheldt, but the reason of them is not very obvious : perhaps they were made for display zuerelv, be navy of King WILLIAM now 'consists altogether of 12 ships of the line, 32 frigates, and 26 smaller vessels.
King LEOPOLD'S marriage is fixed for the 9th August.
