The Arkansas advocate., 1831-09-14

months ago, lay the whlflWind of mehs minds, and guide the storm ot thelr passions"
 Bclgiun.--We have now arrived says tie Times, at an important stage in the Belgic question: question of DO moment in itself, bat of immense inter- est as scontaining the seeds of peace or war. We have got King elect for Belgium. The representatives for the Belgic people, after knocking at the door of the Palais Royal, and being re- fuseda minor Orleans by his father and guardian, havesent their crownto Marl- borough house, and found Prince off mature years and adequate experience ready to put it on his head.
 Prince Leopold, in letter to the Belgian Congress, has signifed his ae- ceptance of the crown on certaineondi- tior1s. The following is copy:-
 @Gentlenaen-l entertain deep sense of the wish of which the Belgic Con gross has made you the interpreters This mark of confidence is to me the more fattering, that it was not sought for on my part. Human destinies do not prcsenta more noble and more use ful task than that of being called 10 maintain the independence and consoIi- date the liberties of nation. A mis- sion of such high importance can alone determine me to abandon an indepen- dent position, and to separate myself from country to which have been at- taehed by ties and reeolections the most sacred, and which has given me so many proofs ofits benevolence and sym 'Ipathy. accept, then, gentlemen. the offer which you make me, it being un- derstood that if will belong to the Con- gross ssofnationalrepresentatives toadopt the measures which can alone constitute the new state, and thus secure for it the recognition of the European powers.- 1t is thus that the Congress will give me the power of devoting myself entirely to Belgium, and of fconsecrating 10 its we'll being and prosperity, the relations which have formed III countries whose friend ship IS essential 10 it, and to secure t. as muchas depends upon cooperation. an independent and happy existence.
 June 20th, 1881.
 1 The Brussels Courier of June 25th. gives an account of a review of 3O,000 men by the Regent-and of the distri. button ofarms to the civic guards of the nelghboring communes. Several Gen erals had taken their departure for their respective posts.
 The works of the projected attack upon the citadelof Antwerp were ceased.
 The London Courier says--ssSFe are l glad to hear that, although the letter of Prince Leopold to the Belgic Deputies. IS so worded as not to inspire so much ~->-sE ] ~
 the final result of the negotiations be- tween him and the Belgian Congress. there was, previously to the departure oi the deputation from London, such an understanding between them and our government, and Prince Leopold, as to ieaveho doubt ofa satisfactory arrange ment, provided the republican and war parties in the National Congress be not strong enough to defeat the friends of order and constitutional monarchy he few difficulties which still present themselves are said 10 be easy of accom- modation."
 Rassio and Potond.-lt is reported that the Field Marshal Count Paske- witch is ill of the Asiatic fever at St. pe- tersburgh. The statement of the Pc sen Gazette, that he had arrived at Wilma, IS not con6rmed.1 It is said he has declined to take command of the army. General Toll is for the present at its head.
 The detailed reports sent by tie fieid Marshal of the battle Of Ostrolen- ka states the Russians loss at 37 officers killed, and lI2 wounded, subalterns sand Prlvates killed. 935, wounded, 2.9l9.-l The Polish loss is stated atabove 5000. .ot whom 1000 were taken prisoners,
 London, June :30aah Is3i.A-The ac- counts count rom Poland are most gratifying. ! he man army, which has remained at | fraga since the battle of Ostrolenka. having been refreshed fromits fatieues. and strengthened by new levies, had broken up from it's cantonements. and proceeded against the enemv. The I death ot Diebitsch, the accounts ofwbicb ilad reached Warsaw about the middle ot Q. the month, may have determined the Polish Commander-in-chief to make this movement.
 The instruction in Lithuania had succeeded beyond the most sanou;ne eXnactations of fbe,