POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
The intelligence from Antwerp comes down to Thursday afternoon. At. that date, the breaching-batteries had not been completed, but they were confidently expected to be so before night. The great mortar, which has made and is to make so much noise, bad been brought up. It throws a shell of 1,0001bs. weight. The Morning Herald reporter speaks of an assault, and how it failed,—from the French cartridges, or, :as he calls them, cartouches, running short; and how some of the cartridge-lacking Frenchmen strayed into the Lunette par hazard, and -found there some Dutch cartridges, left by 'the late garrison, and thus -managed to continue the combat against the garrison with their own weapons. All this may be true, but it does not-tell well. The spirit of satisfaction with which the hypothetical los,s of the besiegers is :given, by this writer and one or two more,-is exceedingly-despicable. 'The fall of the Citadel is expected to take place in a very short period.
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