The news of the dissolution of Lord GREY'S Cabinet reached
Amsterdam on Saturday morning. It caused great joy to the Dutch authorities, as it is supposed that the change would be highly favourable to their views. The Prince of ORANGE set out on Friday for Bois le Due. It seems that the Russian ratification will be accompanied by two protocols, the 58th and the 59th-
" The Emperor of Russia ratifies the treaty, with the reservation of modifica- tions to be made in the 9th, 12th, and 13th articles. The first of these articles relates to the navigation of our internal waters, the second to the rail-road from Antwerp to Cologne, the third to the debt. These three articles must form the subject of a negotiation between Holland and Belgium."
The Amsterdam journalists speculate on the fact of the ratification being dated 18th January : Count ORLOFF, they observe, left St.. Petersburg on the 30th, and therefore it may be presumed that the Dutch Government were in possession of its terms before the Count arrived. We suspect the ratification will turn out to be dated on the day that the Count left Petersburg; which, according to the Russian calendar, was.the 18th January.
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