The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-11 00:00:00

HOLLAND.

REFUSAL OF THE KING OF THE NETHERLANDS.—We re-
ceived last night Dutch papers of the 4th inst. with a letter
from. our correspondent at the Hague. The papers contain but
little news, but the following extract from our correspondent's
letter, is we think, likely to prove correct, as we know his
sources of information to be good :

" The British government's steam-boat, Lightning, has ar-
rived here, with new propositions to the King of the Nether-
lands, on the part of Lntriand and France. An extraordinary
cabinet council is to be held to day (Thursday,) when they are
to be taken into consideration, but you may look upon them,
before-hand, as rejected. The King will accept no proposals
that are•made to him by England and France alone,_ a
minority of the powers which formed the conference."—Lon-
don Standard, (Monday.)

THE HAGUE, Saturday Morning, Jan s.—Since the rising of
the States-General, and the vote of the supplies for the year,
our public men have been obliged to content themselves, in the
absence of snore interesting topics of discussion, with idle spe-
culations on the probability of a war in the spring. The notes
interchanged at Frankfort between the English envoy (Mr.
Cartwright) and the Austrian and Prussian ministers have been
of a character to foster the hopes of our Dutch diplomatists.—
Buoyed up with expectations which are never to be realized,
the Ring and his irresponsible advisers were occupied the whole
of yesterday with the consideration of new propositions submit-
ted to this government by the parties to the convention of the
'22d October. if this statement may be relied on, the new pro-
positions are much more onerous for Holland than any. thing
which had previously been agitated.—The leading article is said
to require the free navigation of the Scheldt for all nations,
without any toll or peage whatever. If the new propositions
are founded on this basis, it is not wonderful, after all that has
been said of the assimilation of the condition of .the Scheldt to
that of the Rhine, and the other rivers which formed the subject
of negotiation at Vienna in 1811, and afterwards of a special
treaty at Mentz, that the King of Holland should have hesi-
tated in acceding to them. it would have been inconsistent
with all his previous policy if he had delayed to reject a propo-
sition of this nature beyond the period that was necessary for
its deliberate and respectful consideration. If our information
be well founded, the same packet which carries this letter to
London will contain, in M. Verstolk Van Soelen's despatches
to the Baron Zuyleg de Nyevelt, as well as in the official com-
munications of the Hon. Mr. Jerningham to Lord Palmerston,
a distinct and categorical rejection of this branch at least of the
French and British propositions. The other conditions relate
to the evacuation of Forts Lillo and Liefkcnshoek, the mutual
and simultaneous disarmament of Belgium and Holland, and
the payment by this country of the expenses of the war. On
these points the answer of M. Verstolk is said to be of a more
argumentative nature, but, so far as I have been able to learn,
the details have not yet transpired beyond those channels which
are either strictly
.otticial or at least perfectly confidential in
their nature.—lt is somewhat extraordinary, that these inad-
missible, or at least rejected, .propositions, should have arrived
at a moment when for the first time since the commencement
of hostilities the usual courtesies of diplomatic intercourse had
just been re-opened bet Ween the Minister for Foreign Affairs
and the representatives of France and England.