The only piece of news with which the arrivals during
the week from Brussels have furnished us, is a threa.teried quarrel between the blustering Commandant of the citadel at Antwerp and Colonel BUZEN, LEOPOLD'S military. Governor of Antwerp. The latter has been occupied for sonic time in constructing a line of batteries against the citadel. The consequence was, a message, on Monday sennight, from the Commandant, that unless the works were instantly suspended, an immediate bombardment of the town would be the consequence. The Belgian Governor re- plied, with more spirit than was, perhaps, to be expected, that the works should not be suspended, and General CHASSE might bom- bard the town if leg dared. There is nothing like a bold face with people who talk big. There is another version, a private one, which does not give the Belgians quite so much credit. I-Lwever it may be, the works went on, and at nine o'clock on Saturday last the embrasures were finished; the guns, forty-eight-pounders, were planted, pointed, loaded, and primes; and the gunner, "with his linstock in his band," stood ready, as soon as the General should begin to bounce, to reply to him with "double cracks." The Ge- neral, it appears; had thought better of it, and no firing took place. With respect to the long disputed and still delayed question of the treaty, as far as the particulars have been allowed to ooze out, the sum appears to stand thus. As LEOPOLD'S Ministers were pledged not to open any negotiation with King WILLIAM unless on the preliminary condition of the evacuation of the Belgian terri- tory, LEOPOLD has, to save their consistency, accepted their resig- nation; and a new Ministry has been formed,- or is about to be formed, under the auspices of that gentleman, touching whom so many inquiries were made the week before last, General GOBLET.- It will not be so pledged; and by it the negotiations may be con- ducted without the exactions which M. MEULENAERE was resolved. to call for, and the Dutch equally resolved not to grant. The grand point for consideration is the free navigation of the Scheldt; for which WILLIAM claims a high toll, and for which LEOPOLD is content, Diis volentibus, on the advice of the Conference, to sub- mit to a low one. Whether when the Pe-age, as it is called, is settled, the debt—the 0-age—may not prolong the dispute,,we da not profess to know. It may be in our readers' recollection, that the Belgians, sonic time ago, threatened to make the continued expense to which they had been subjected stand as a set-off
Weare to have no more protocols : the future resolves of the Conference are to be published under the title of " sittings"—as they were changing the name, it would have been as well to call them " lyiugs."
