The principal Conti.iental news has re.erence to the 13,!'gic- Dutch
questioa. It is sad that King LsopoLn has withstood the solicitations of his lather-in-law, Louis PHILIP, awl abso- lutely refuses to concur in the Twenty-lour Articles. LSOP;MD has been to Paris: he sojournetl there ten class, and is perhaps now on his route from Brussels to Loudon. Whether he will re- ceive any countenance from the British Ministry in his resolution to obtain better terms for Belgium, rinuatits to be seen. It considered probable, according to the Piris correspondent of the Times, that the Prussians will actively aid the King of Holland,
and perhaps commence operations by seizing Venloo; in which event, it is stated on the same authority." no power on earth could restrain the French people and the French army Worn in- terfering." All this has a menacing sound ; but it is not pro- bable that the Great Powers will engage in a war for a matter in which they have so little direct interest.
The French Government has lately prosecuted several news- papers in Paris and the provinces, for apparently very slight in- Auctions of the law. The editor of the Temps has been sen- tenced to a month's imprisonment and a fine of 500 francs, for publishing a report of the secret deliberations of the Court of Peers on the trial of Lieutenant Lam for the Strasburg pamph- let. M. Tuomassits, the printer of that pamphlet, was accused of stating that he had printed only 5,000 copies, whereaa the number was really 10,000; but he escaped under a legal in- formality.
The Paris journals continue to make much of Soma's recep- tion in London ; which every account states has had an excellent effect in lessening French prejudice against the people of this country. SOULT himself, we believe, unbosoming his confidence to some old English warriors of the Peninsula, pronounces us to be "a set of capital fellows;" and declares that after he has gone home and put off his dignity as representing the majesty of France, be will return again to visit us en bourgeois.
