The affairs of the Netherlands are again progressing towards a
settlement. The negotiation between the citadel of Antwerp and the people proceeds with every hope of a favourable result. Of the assembly which is to determine the nature of the constitution by which the country is in future to be governed, the deputies are now chosen: reckoning deputies and substitutes, the number is four hundred, but only two hundred will vote. Forty of the deputies are said to be priests. The King of Holland has de- clared Antwerp and Ghent in a state of siege. For what earthly purpose? Has he been encouraged to the measure by the pane- gyric of the English Ministry ? The interference will, after all, be no interference-thanks to the decided opposition which it has met in Parliament, and out of it. M. VAN DE WEYER, a member of the Provisional Government, having been favoured with an audience of the Duke of WELLINGTON, this week, was assured by his Grace, on his parole d'honneur, that "there would be no interference in the affairs of Belgium dans aucun cat." They may have a republic, or a monarchy, or what they will. We said SO last week. Two commissioners have been despatched to the Netherlands, with a view, if possible, to persuade the contending parties to an armistice.
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