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frg-tefrnrgmg attft Ctmrsftag'g Uoøtø. LONDON, AUGUST 9. THE Paris Jonrnals of Saturday and Sunday have been received. On Friday a Conference of the Ambassa- dors from Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia, and the French Ministers for Foreign Affairs (Sebastiani), and the Interior (M, Perier), took place at the office of the latter, where the views of the French Government with respect to Belgium were laid before the Ambassadors of the Four Great Powers. These were explicitly stated to be—that the F rench droops were to enter Belgium solely to re-establish the ar- mistice; and that the instant the troops of the King of Holland should be driven from the Belgic territory, the French army would evacuate the country, and that not a single soldier of the French army should enter any one of the Belgic fortresses. With these assurances the Ambassadors expressed themselves perfectly satisfied; and suspicion and alarm were superseded by confidence and feelings of amity and security that the peace of Europe generally would not be disturbed The French have laid an embargo 011 aH Dutch vessels at Dunkirk and elsewhere. By an express from Brussels we learn than an armistice of48hourshasbeengrantedattheintercessionof the French envoy, by the commander of the citadel at Antwerp, to the inhabitants of that city; and it seems also likely to be pro- tected by a British fleet, as that commanded by Sir Edward Codrington is immediaiely ordered to be in readiness in the Downs. Nothing but skirmishing has yet taken place be- tween the Dutch and Belgian troops. Several villages have been taken and pillaged by the Dutch, who are represented as committing every devastation in their power. King Leopold is near the theatre of war, and using great exertion to organize his troops. The Prince of Orange had assumed the Chief Command, and, in the face of these atrocities, published a manifesto to the country people, assuring them that he meant to protect their property, his father's only object being to secure a separation upon fair terms. The greatest enthusiasm continued to prevail amongst the Belgian soldiers, but their army is said to be in a sad state of disor- ganization. "War to the knife," is their cry. The latter journals state that official intelligence had been received by the King of Holland of the loss of Batavia, and its submission to the Belgic part of his Asiatic force. No particulars are stated; but the loss of Batavia may be considered as the loss of the whole of the important Island of Java. The latest accounts respecting Poland exhibit no new movement on the part of either the Russian or Polish troops. Both apparently remain in the same positions; and it would, in consequence, seem as if the immense Russian army col- lected under the command of Marshal Paskewitsch had, all at once, been paralysed by some extraordinary cause. The intelligence respecting the Cholera from Russia is very favourable. At Riga there were no deaths. AtMemelonly a few. Some riots had taken place in enforcing the regula- tions respecting health. At Archangel and St. Petersburgh the disease had considerably subsided, and the symptoms had changed to a typhus character.

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