9 NOVEMBER 1833, Page 2
The States-General of Holland have addressed their Sovereign in reply
to his speech. As we say in England, "the address was, as usual, an echo of the speech." One uncourtly phrase, however, appears to have crept into it: the Deputies aver, "that retrenchments are, above all, itnperatively necessary in the situation of their finances." The losing game which King WILLIAM has been playing must have an end ; and the Dutch papers state that very considerable reductions in the army are in contemplation.