The Dutch Envoy to the Conference, Baron VAN ZUYLEN, has
returned to the Hague. One of his last acts was to deliver a note from his Government to Prince TALLEYRAND and Lord PALMER- STON, wherein the terms on which his Dutch Majesty was willing to negotiate for the final settlement of the Belgic question were contained. These appeared to the French and English Pleni- potentiaries to be so unreasonable, that they have cut the matter short, in a note dated the 14th of February; and have declared their determination to hold no further communication with the Ring of Holland until he shows some symptoms of returning sense. Matters therefore are quite at a stand in that quarter. The Standard was hoaxed this week by a spurious manifesto, or some document of that sort, said to have been issued by France and England against Holland, and stating that a French army vas on the point of entering Holland. But we suppose the French -will wait till they are paid the expense of the last expedition, before they undertake a new one.
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