The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of KENT and the
Princess VICTORIA walked and drove in Hyde Park yes-
terday for some time.

M. MA VROJE NI, the Turkish Minister, on a special mis-
sion, had a long interview with Viscount PALMERSTON at
the Foreign-office yesterday.
The LORD CHANCELLOR and the Right Hon. CHARLES
GRANT visited Earl GREY yesterday at the Treasury.
Prince TALLEYRAND sent off last evening despatches to
Paris, after an interview which his Excellency had with
Viscount PALMERSTON.

Viscount Howzcx left town on Wednesday for Northum•
berland, to attend his election.

Lord HeLLAND entertained Earl GREY and a select
party at dinner last evening at Holland-house.

BRIGHTON, DEC. 13. '

Yesterday the KING, accompanied by Lady SOPHIA
SIDNEY, left the Palace in a close carriage and four, with
two outriders, and proceeded a few miles on the Lewes
road and back, visiting the Duchess of GLOUCESTER pre-
vious to his return to the Palace.

Her MAJESTY, attended by the Hon. Miss BAGOT,
Mademoiselle D'ESTE, Lady E. CORNWALLIS, Earl HowE,
Lord ERROL, Earl BROWN LOW, Lady KENNEDY ERSKINE,
and Sir ANDREW BARNARD, took equestrian exercise;
the Royal cortege proceeded to Preston, from thence over
the Downs to near the Devil's Dike, and returned to the
Palace after 4 o'clock.

The Duke of SUSSEX walked for some time on the
Western Esplanade, and afterwards visited the Duchess of
GLOUCETEA. His Royal Highness also honoured the
Marchioness of DOWNSHIRE with a visit.

The Princess AUGUSTA drove out in a carriage and
four, attended by Miss WYNYARO.

The guests invited to the Royal table last evening in-
cluded Prince and Princess LIEVEN, Prince and Princess
GALITZIN, Earl and Countess of CHESTERFIELD, Earl
HOVE, Earl and Countess COWPER, Lady ASHLEY, Hon.
Mrs. GEORGE ANSON, Mr. H. GREVILLE, Viscount and
Viscountess SIDNEY, and Sir HENRY HALYORD.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TAT TERSALL' S.

The following is as near as possible a correct quotation of the
average odds against all the horses now in the betting ; owing
to the elections, however, and the consequent absence of many
influential subscribers, business at present is extremely dull and
uninteresting :

DERBY, 1833.
81 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Glaucus
9 to 1 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Revenge
II to I agst Mr. Hunter's Forester
12 to I agst Mr. Mostyn's Prince Llewellyn
16 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Muley colt
17 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Moses's darn c.
20 to I agst Colonel Cosby's Bravo
25 to 1 agst Duke of Gratton's Divan
27 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ishmael
28 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Y. Petuaria colt
28 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Marinella colt
28 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Emmeline colt
33 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Boscobel
33 to 1 agst Sir M. Wood's Brother to Margrave
40 to 1 agst Lord Tavistock's Anglesea

THE LIVES AND EXPLOITS OF BANDITTI.

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Christmas evenings, better companions cannot be had
than these amusing Robbers and Banditti.—Monthly
Review.

The French still continue their works, but the firing is
rather slack.

BRUSSELS, WEDNESDAY NooN.

I am heartily tired of writing " The last accounts from
Antwerp state that the operations of attack and defence
were continued with equal determination on both sides."
I wish I could change my tone, and am as anxious for
any event that would enable me to do so as the most in-
terested quidnunc in London. But, being chained down
to a narrative of facts as I find them, I am sorry that I
am still obliged to say that things are going on as before,
and at the citadel as usual. The firing can be heard at a
little distance from this town, though not so well as a few
days since. The cannonade on and front the citadel was
going on briskly to a late hour last night, and, as we can
hear, was resumed early this morning. With what effect,
,s far as to day is concerned, we cannot yet tell. The
Lunette St. Laurent had not been taken at the date of the
last accounts, as you were no doubt led to expect from the
letter of yesterday, and it is probable that it is still in the
possession of the Dutch.
You will have observed, as no doubt it must have
reached you through the French papers nearly as salon as
it could reach us here, that Marshal Gerard, in his letter
of the 7th, to the Minister of War, explains the causes of
the protracted state of the operations of the besiegers. It
is quite certain that the moonlight has retarded the works
by exposing the workmen to a most destructive fire, by
which many of them have suffered. The moonlight,
however, will give way in a few days. Whether the
second cause of the delay—the obstinate defence of the
Dutchmen—will give way at the same time, remains to
be seen.

It is one cause of satisfaction at least, that if the siege
does not make the progress on which many had calcu-
lated, it does not go back—no step or position gained has
been lost, and every day the works are becoming more
and more advanced—so as new to have nearly reached
their closest point in front of the enemy. That it must
fall nobody ventures to doubt, though of course opinions
now vary as to the probable time that may intervene.
The besiegers, as you will see in the accounts below,
have gained one point in blowing up the sluice which kept
the waters to a considerable depth in the fosse of the cita-
del. Some military men here state that this was a pre-
mature step, as in all probability Chasse will have time to
fill his fosse again before the French are ready to attempt
to cross it.

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than gold in the estimation of a French soldier. But the
young Dukes have not evinced the interest they take in the
comfort of the soldiers to words only. They left 500
francs to the wounded in the hospital at Antwerp. The
King and Queen here have also been very liberal to those
who suffered in their property by the accidental shot and
shell in the city, by a donation of 9,000 francs.
HALF-PAST 5 O'CLOCK, C. M.
The accounts which
left Antwerp at half-pdst I, and
those which left Berchem at 2, describe the contest as
going on rather more briskly at both sides. The Lunette
St. Laurent had not yet been taken.
At the .
moment
that I write the cannonading can be
heard here as distinctly as it was five or six days back, so
that up to this instant we know they are actively engaged
in the work of destruction, \V.
The following are from the morning papers :
(From the Moniteur Bilge.)—efficial account.

ANTWERP, DEC. 1i , NooN.

The parapets of the trenches nearest to the citadel were
to-day manned with ten fusileets. each, who kept up a ejn-
tinued fire of musketry, which must have greatly aamoye I
the Dutch artillerymen in working their guns ; fot the

citadel has fot limns I•rpt up only a weak file,
like that of tnusketry, hum behind the works, and of
bombs thrown from the masked mortars.
The fire of the besieged is less brisk than it has been
for some days. At 6 o'clock a detachment of the Dutch
made a sortie from the covered way of the bastio❑ No. 2,
and threw down some gabions of the head of the sap, which
bordered on the glacis of this bastion. A company of the
troops guarding the trenches advanced to the relief of the
sappers, and the enemy retired precipitately to the covered
way.

The opening parallel to the left face of the Lunette St.
Laurent has reached the roadway to Boom, which passes
between this lunette and the half-moon. A new passage
has been opened to keep up the communication between
that which goes from the covered-way of the cnunterscarp
and the new place d'armes established to support the head
of these new works.

It is now possible to attack the Lunette St. Laurent in
the breast work, when we shall have silenced the fire of
souse pieces whir!,ll still bear on that points

THE FRENCH ARMY'.
BERCHEM, DEC. 11, EVENING.
Last night was a very severe one, and gave proof, is
any could be necessary, that there is nothing which may
not be expected from an army which hat confidence in its
chiefs. All the young soldiers implicitly follow their of-
ficers, end one sees in the tlerotedness with which they
obey, something beyond military discipline,—a feeling of
respect which is called forth by former services, and an
.ittachment to their officers created by the great solicitude
of the latter for their men.

have already mentioned to you that the night before
ast was employed in the formation of the third parallel,
which, going from the opening on the left of the lunette,
joins the works of the counterscarp a short distance from
the citadel. It appears that the besieged did not expect
that this would be attempted before the taking of the lu-
nette, for, indeed, i❑ all their operations the engineers
have displayed a boldness quite astonishing. It was easy
to perceive at nightfall yesterday that the Dutch were
preparing to disturb our workmen on that side, and i❑ a
short time. at 6 o'clock—the reports announced the dis-
charge of bombs thrown at a short distance from the
citadel, and they began to fall in the trench in much
greater numbers than during the day.
Some hours after an approaching fusilade announced a
sortie; and, at the same time about 100 of the enemy, at-
tacked our works, and for the moment threw our work-
men into disorder, bat being brought up immediately by
their racers, our soldiers fought man to man in the
trenches. The Dutch were soon obliged to retire in dis-
order, leaving seven dead in the trench, of which one was
an officer. This incident did not weaken the fusilade,
which was continued during the night, and was the most
brisk which we have heard since the commencement °fats
siege. Fortunately, the firing was at random, and in the
total darkness of the night did but very little mischief.
However, the engineers, taking advantage of the circum-
stance, that the attention of the besieged was turned to
this one point, and excited also by the bullets and bombs
thrown at them during the night, exploded a mine, which
they had been preparing for three days before, the effect of
which was to destroy the sluice in the fosse of the citadel
This sluice was fixed near the Porte de Secour, between
the bastions No. 1 and 2, and its effect, combined with
that of another sluice near the Porte de la Citadelie,
looking towards the Esplanade, was to keep the water in
the fosse between those two places to a considerable depth.
We shall see in the morning if the calcu'ations made
were correct, and if the height of the waters is such as
was hoped for.
The effect of the explosion caused a cessation of the file
on both sides. For our parts we have gained our object.
The besieged have to examine the tffects to them of an
attempt, for the hardihood of which they could not have
been prepared.

(From the Independant.)
13ERCHE11, DEC. 11, 4, P. 31.

It is stated, on the authority of a deserter from the
citadel, that there are a great many sick in the garrison ;
that the casemates, which have not always been found a
shelter from the bombs, are extremely damp; that the water
gets through them and makes them extremely unhealthy.
The shot and shells which have been thrown have
destroyed all the buildings--everything that could take
fire has been burnt. The parapets and embrasures have
been knocked down, and the ground itself torn up and
furrowed by our projectiles which have fallen amongst
them..

The arming of the new batteries has been effected
with a very inconsiderable loss of men, and yet there were
great difficulties to be overcome in raising them. In order
to place these batteries in advance of the parallel, it was
necessary to cut a ❑ew trench, to carry the cannon along
a narrow way at the edges of two deep fosses, and also to
cross a very narrow bridge. In this passage two of tbe
mortars were overturned and fell into one of the fusses,
from which it required immense labour to extricate them.
Of the two new batteries, one, called No.I I, consists or
four or five pieces of 21, and the other, marked G, con-
tains six mortars of 29 centimetres calibre (about 1:2
inches).

The log which prevailed during the whole of yesterday
obliged us to slacken our file, and to suspend altogether
the fire of those in the direction of the head of the sap,
to: we could not distinguish objects at the distance of 100
paces, and our firing in that direction might have been
attended with the most serious accidents.

Yesterday passed off calmly, but the night was very ani
mated. At 6 o'clock a terrific fite of cannon and small
orms was opened, and a great number of bombs were
thrown at us. Notwithstanding this fire, our 1, ss was
only 35 killed and wounded.

This morning the firing is continued on both side., but
nothing particular has yet occurred that I have heard of.
The miners, protected by a small covered raft, are going
en with their works against the lunette. They never
leave them, yet with all these labours it will require 24
hours yet before we are in a condition to produce any
result.

The duty of the trenches will on the 11th and 12th de-
volve upon General Rapatel, M. St. Aubane, Colonel of
the 7th of the line, and two battalions of that regiment.
1 find the following paragraph under the head of Liege,
dated the 10th of December :
" The attempt to send off the enormous mortar, of
which we have already spoken, was to have taken place
yesterday at noon, but we experienced so much difficulty
in its removal that the attempt is put off until to-morrow.
This giant of a cannon must be placed on its breach be-
fore it can be fired. It weighs 15,000 pounds, and will
carry a bomb of 21• inches in diameter." W.