The King of Holland has determined on war for the
recovery of Luxembourg. The termination of the armistice took place on Thursday, it having been previonsly announced by General CHASSE, commandant of the fort at Antwerp, that it was not in- tended to prolong or renew it. No sooner was the intelligence of approaching hostilities conveyed to King LEOPOLD, than he re- turned to Brussels. Antwerp, it is conjectured, will be the first point of attack. Thither all the spare artillery of Brussels has been despatched. The Dutch mean, it is reported, immediately to assault Venloo, in the direction of which they are said to be already moving. The Prince of ORANGE published, on the 1st, an order of the day, addressed to the troops, in which he announces his having been called to the supreme command, and talks very mag- nificently of the bravery of the Line and of the Volunteers and Burgher Guard. He hopes to prove to his men, that the blood of NASSAU still flows in his veins. It has flowed very lazily for the last forty years in all the veins it has filled. Prince FREDERICK is second in command. The head-quarters were moved from Breda on the 1st. There have already been some slight skirmishes. A Dover letter says the armies were hotly engaged, but we suspect it was with their respective dinners. The Belgians and Dutch, to judge from their exhibitions last year, might be described in nearly the same terms that are employed in the old story of the two bad singers : the Belgians are among the worst soldiers in Europe, but as for the Dutch, they are no soldiers at all. We do not think there will be much bloodshed between them if they be left to themselves. The Courier of last night seems to conclude, as a matter of course, that King WILLIAM must now give up all chance (it was but a chance) of compensation for Luxembourg. LEOPOLD is obliged to our contemporary for the hint
"To pay all his debts with a loll of the drum."
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