The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-27 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Prince Mensehikoff has only forty-eight pieces of
cannon at his command, which are ranged on the
heights from the Convent of St. Crimea to Sebas-
topol. None of the batteries consist of more than
eight pieces.
The Satellite says that Philippesku, the late com-
mander of the Moldavian militia, is sentenced to
four years' exile in Siberia, and at the end of this
time he is to join the army of the Caucasus.
We learn from Vienna that, on the 22d, Prince
Gortschakoff received a despatch announcing the
disembarkation of the expedition in the Crimea,
and immediately wrote to the Russian Ambassador
at Stuttgard, stating that he postponed his intended
visit to that city.

The Copirte Zeitung says that despatches re-
ceived by Prince Menschikoff from St. Petersburg
instruct him to propose an armistice in case of the
destruction of the fleet being imminent.
The Piedmontese Gazette of the 22d announces
that the Delegate Council of Turin has favourably
received Chevalier Bonelli's proposal of having a
universal exhibition of manufactures at Turin, in
1857, and invitedihim to write to the secretary on
the subject.
A correspondent of the Lloyd writes on the 11th
inst. from Constantinople, that the rebel Zeybecks,
in the pachalick of Aiden, still held the upper hand.
Their leader, Sinan Oglu, with his followers, had
thrown himself into Fort Kutak, in Aidin, and re-
peatedly :beaten back the imperial troops. In
Persia the Turcomans had taken and destroyed two
forts.
A letter from Stockholm, of the 13th, says :
" We have here at present in our port a Sardinian
brig, the Adda, with a large quantity of hemp on
board, grown in Piedmont. This is the first time
that that article has been brought here from Italy;
it has been sold at rather high prices."
Advices from Galatz of the 16th inst. state that
the fortifications there are already restored, and
that the Turkish garrison will eventually consist of
6,000 men. Up to the 16th, the garrison of Galatz
was not more than 25,000 men.

A correspondent, writing from Constantinople,
sayslthat some five or six gun-boats, laden with
Russian troops and munitions, had been lost in a
storm -in the sea of Azoff, on their way from
Taganrog to the Crimea. No dates are given.
By an imperial decree the Jewish Consistory of
Metz has been authorised to accept the donation of
60,000 fr. made by the late Duchess de Plaisance,
for putting out as apprentices a certain number of
Jewish children.

The Moniteur des 116pitaux says :—" The greater
number of the physicians or medical pupils sent
into the country to attend the cholera patients are
returning to the capital, which proves that every-
where in France the epidemic is happily disappear-
ing. The movement of the civil hospitals proves
that such is also the case in Paris."
Baron Andr( Mario Hue, ex-premier valet-de-
chambre of Louis XVIII. and Charles X., died on
the 16th near Bray (Seine-et-Marne), at the age of
68. Baron Andre was the only son of M. Hue,
who shared part of the captivity of Louis XVI.,
and was mentioned by that monarch in his will.

BETTING.—The County Court judge of Warrington
(J. W. Harden, Esq.) decided, on Thursday last, that
stakes deposited in the hands of any person could not be
recovered either by the gainer or loser of a bet.—War,
rington Ogorc