The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-25 00:00:00

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LEITRIM, COUNTY. MAYO, COUNTY.
S. White, Fsq.... 542' S. Browne
Lord Clements 450 D. Browne
Colonel Clements 330 Sir W. Brabazon ,
WATERFORD, COUNTY. LIMERICK, COUNTY.
Galway
Sir R. Keane 156 O'Grady
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Power 1491 Massey

MONACIIAN, COUNTY
Perrin

Blayney lOO2
Westenra 959
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IMTaiihy
DONEGAL, COUNTY.

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Gale 659
Coote
Dunne l6

Sir E. Hayes
Colonel Conolly

Lord M. Hill u
M. Maguire

BRUSSELS.

BRUSSELS, SUNDAY, I O'CLOCK.

OFFER OF CHASSE TO CAPITULATE.
The news has just reached this place, that at 9 o'clock
this morning, a breach being then practicable, Chasse
offered to evacuate the citadel provided he could get terms.
To this Kasha! Gerard sent an answer expressing his
readiness to prevent the further effusion of blood. What
the terms were has not yet transpired here, but of the fact
of the offer to surrender there can be no doubt. It wa4
considered of sufficient importance to send off a courier
with the account from head-quarters, and I think it of
equal consequence to make it the subject of an extra cou-
rier to you.

It is import int that an event should be known as early
as possible which makes it a certainty that the lives of
probably some thousands may be saved, and that this ex-
traordinary contest may now be considered as at an end.
I have not now time to say more. By my regular
courier at 6 o'clock I shall probably be able to send you
all the particulars.

Yon have annexed whatever there is new in the morn-
ing papers, but of course they could not know of this event.

(From the Independent.)

ANTWERP, DEC. 22, 3, P.M.
The fire of the battery in breach and of the counter-
battery has become very brisk since day-break, as has also
that of the besieged, who fire charges of small shells,
which fall in the French batteries and do great mischief.
The fire of musketry which the besieged keep up from
behind what remains of the parapet of the bastion No. 2,
and through battlements formed of sacks of earth, is not
at all destructive.

The breach is greatly advanced ; it extends over half
of the left face of the bastion. The mask wall is de-
stroyed, and they are now destroying the contreforts which
still hold in the earth.

It is thought that the breach will be practicable to-
morrow; but the fire from the right flank of the bastion
No. 1 is not yet silenced.

The subter;aneous descent to the fosse, and that which
has been made on the outside, are brought as far as the
masonry of the counterscarp.
The great mortar has sent off eight bombs to-day, the
effects of which were prodigious, as well by the force of
their fall as by their explosion.
A Dutch deserter came over this morning. He says he
was witness to the fall of the first bomb, which made an
excavation three fret deep in the curtain between the bas-
tions No. I and 5. The explosion was appalling to the
men on duty,

5 O'CLOCE.
The battery in breach still continues its fire, the effects
of which are easily perceived. The points on which the
balls are directed are greatly injured. The crest of the
rampart is totally carried away.
The Dutch return the fire but feebly in comparison
with the terrific roaring of the breaching battery. How-
ever, all their shots are not thrown away—a chef de ba.
taillon of Artillery has been severely, it is thought
mortally, wounded.

The " monster mortar" discharged only a bomb every
hour yesterday. Every one of them reached the citadel,
where their effects were terrible,

All the projectiles thrown by the Dutch against the
batteries No. 3 and 4 overshoot their object, and fall in
the vicinity of the Berchem road.

We have beard nothing from the batteries oa the other
side of the Scheldt to-day.
Two Dutch deserters, who came from the citadel this
morning, agree in saying that the garrison suffersmore than
can lie imagined. Their situation is most distressing.
The fire of last ❑ight was not, as far as I can learn,
very destructive, but still we have to lament the loss of
several. We count amongst the killed a commandant of
artillery, a captain, and another officer; four miners were
destroyed by a bomb. The loss in the trenches was pro.
portional.

(From the Emancipation.)

ZERG:HE3I, DEC. 22.
Last night and to-day passed off without any remark.
able incident. I mentioned yesterday that the coating of
the Toledo bastion did not present as great resistance as
was expected, and which the wall of the enceinte of the
Lunette St. Laurent had led us to suppose. We can
plainly see the ravages made by the bullets, and if the first
calculation gave eight days as the time in which a breach
would he practicable, the effect of the batteries since the