The Arkansas advocate., 1831-04-20
FOREIGN INTEIlIIGENcE.
Z ,; ;A TEST FROM FsIII1OPE.
 The packet ship Francisl l. arrived at New York from Havre, on Monday, bringing Paris papers to the 2d Febrn-

lowing note from M. Sebastiani to M. BrcssoI, was received from the Provis- ionai Government, whicl. put an end to the discussion for that day:
 ssSr: l hasten toreply to your letter of the 2fth. The Kings Council, which assembled today, were unanimous upon the necessity of declaring to the Pro- visional Government, that the French Government would regard the choice of the Duke de Leutchtcnberg to fill the throne of Belgium, as al, act of hostili- F towards !. case the Congress, notwithstanding this declaration, should proceed to such election, you viii quit .Rrnssals immediately. Accept, &c.
 ssHORACE sSEBASTIANI.
 PARTS, Jan. 26, lSa0.' .''
 The followingis sthe Protocol of the conference held at the Foreign Office, Lonilon, January %, 1851:
 Present, the Plenipotentiares of Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia.
 The Plenipotentiaries having con :sidered the letter hereunto annexed, ad- dressed to their Commissioners at BIus- sels, in the name of the Provisional Gov ernmcnt of Belgium, which imports that, in conformity to the tenor of the Proto- col of the 9th January, 1881, the Belgi- um troops that had advanced to the en- virons of Maestricht, had received or .ders to retireimmediately, and to avoid, for the future, all causes for hostility.
 < Having reason to be convinced, by the explanations of their commissioners, that this retreat of the Belgium troops would have the effect of ensuring to the scitadelof Maestricht the full liberty of communication 1t ought to enjoy, and not doubting that on his side his Majes- ty the King of the Netherlands had pro vidcd for the execution of the Protocol of January 9: having likewise settled all the necessary Resolutions, in case the conditions of the Protocol should either. be refused or infringed, and having as certained the point at which the cessa- tion of hostilities should be complete, and which the five Powers have so much at heart to sec accomplised, the Pleni- potentiaries have proceeded to examine the questions they had to resolve, ia or der to realize the object of their Proto-. col of the 2Oth December, 1850, and make a useful application of the fundas mental principles attached by this Act , 10 the future independence of Belgium, and to consolidate that general peace, the maintenance of whichis the first in- terest, as it forms the first wish of the Powers assembled in conference at Lon- don.
 ;;fo this end, tic Hleiiipotsati;sstries have judged 1t indispensable to lay F s, s,ssf;;i vii, before all other matter, the basis for the limits which ought from hence forthto separate the Dutch from the Bel giusnaterritory.
 ssPropositions have been laid before them by each party in this last respect. After matureiy discussing them, they have agreed upon the following basis:
 $ st. !. The limits of Holland shall include all the territories, fortresscs, towns, and places, which belonged to ! the cidcvant Republic of the United Provinces of the Low Countries in the year l790.
 < Art. ,. Belgium shall be formed of all the rest of the territories which were under the denomination of the kingdom ofthe Netherlands in the Treaty of 1Sl5, exceptthe Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which, being possessed by the Princes of the house of Nassau, by different title, forms, and shall continue to form, a part of the Germanic Confederation.
 Art. 3. Itis understood that the pro- visions of Articles l0S to IF, inclusive of the General Actof the Congress of Vienna, with respect to ttfhc ttfhc free naviga, ton of rivers and navigable streams, ehall he applicable to the rivers and streams that traverse the territories of Holland and Belgium.
 < Art. 4. As it nevertheless may result from the basis laid down in Article l and 3. that Holland and Belgium may possess portions ofsterritory within the respective limits of the other, there shall be effected by and with the assistance of the Five Courts, such intevchangcs and other arrangements between the two countries as may secure to them re :ciprocally, q complete contiguity of pos session, and free communication be- fweenth towns and rivers comprised between their respective frontiers. If T .