The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-05 00:00:00

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, AIM. 23.
(Per Nova Scotia, via Quebec and Londonderry.)
The news from Washington is unimportant.
A thorough examination of the Potomac has been
made by order of the Navy Department.
No signs of a hostile force have been found.
The New York Intelligencer has advices via Ken-
tucky, stating that the Confederates were preparing
to invade Missouri, and intended to commence an
offensive movement on the Cheat Mountain Pass.

The privateer Sumter is still at liberty. A
Curnoa letter, dated August 7, states that she cap-
tured the schooner Abbey Bradford and the barque
Joseph Maxwell, off La Guavara.
It appears that the Venezuelan Government re-
fused the Sumter admittance into port, and de-
spatched a vessel to the north of La Guayara to
retake the Joseph Maxwell, which was anchored
among the reefs, by order of the War Department .
The Federal army will be uniformed in blue.
On the arrival of the New York train yesterday
at Philadelphia, the United States Marshal seized
every copy of the New York Daily News, including
upwards of 1,000 copies for the South and West.
The sale office at Philadelphia was also totally
suppressed.
The Christian Observer has also been seized, in
consequence of a virulent article on the war.

General M'Culloch was not killed in the battle
at Springfield.

It is stated that General Banks has advanced to
take possession of Winchester (Va.), in face of 4,000
Confederates.

(LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT.)
NEW YORK, AUG. 24.

News unimportant. The Canada has arrived out.
Cotton active. Middling Upland is quoted 184 c.
Breadstuffs firm. Flour declining; prices ic.
lower. Corn advancing, and lc. higher. Provisions
dull. Stocks steady. Erie, 25 ; New York Central,
74 ; Illinois Central, 64k.

LONDONDERRY, SEPT. 4.

The Canadian screw-steamer Nova Scotia, which
arrived here this evening, passed the Hibernia on
the 25th and the North America on the 29th ult.

MIDDLESEX .REGIST RATION.

Mr. Henry S. Maine, the new revising bar-
rister, will have ample work before him, inas-
much as the objections taken to names on the
list are more numerous than usual, particularly
on the part of the Conservatives, who have
taken nearly 4,000, and the new claims are up-
wards of 3,000. A question of some importance
will have to be considered with respect to the
shareholders in the building of the Royal Ex-
change, who have each sent in a claim in respect
to their share in the freehold, and the point
which will have to be considered is, how far the
Act of Incorporation shuts out individual claims in
respect of this property. The decision in one case
will determine the batch, and will be one of con-
siderable interest. There is no other case involving
a matter of principle, the great mass of those re
maining depending upon the proof of qualification.
Mr. H. A. James will appear, as before, as agent
for the Liberals ; and Mr. W. H. Smith on behalf
of the Conservatives.
MARYLEBONE.

Mr. Thomas Hull Terrell will revise the lists of
voters for this borough. The Liberals have taken
no objections, but the Conservatives have taken
nearly 400, but it is fully expected that a large pro-
portion of these will be sustained.

THE BOOKBINDERS AT THE BRITISH

MUSEUM.

A case of some importance to working men employed in
Government institutions was decided this week at
the Bloomsbury County Court—Staples being the plaintiff
and Mr. Tuckett, the bookbinder at the British Museum,
the defendant. _ _

Plaintiff claimed 30s. far one week's wages, in lieu of
notice, and it appeared that on Monday, the 29th July, it
was alleged defendant found plaintiff reading instead of
working, and told him to go. Soon after this defendant
found plaintiff at work, but refused to allow him to proceed.
It was deposed for defendant that the men were paid so
much per hour, and made out their bills at 6d. per hour.
Mr. G. Allen, of Chancery-lane, for defendant, then urged
that there was no weekly hiring, and even if there were,
plaintiff had rendered himself liable to dismissal for mis-
conduct. Mr. Allen pointed out that this case was one of
some importance to both Mr. Tuckett and the great num-
ber of men in his employ, and it would be for his Honour to
say whether plaintiff had been guilty of such misconduct
that defendant was justified in discharging biui.
His Honour (Mr. Lefroy) considered that defendant was
justified, and found for def,..Zani,, with costs.

AN OT.D OFFENDER.—William Turner, who had
previously served four years' penal servitude for pocket
picking, his brother Henry, and a woman named Roberts,
were yesterday again convicted of the same offence at the
Middlesex Sessions. Turner was this time sentenced to
ten years' penal servitude, the woman to two years' impri-
sonment, and the younger brother of Turner, who had been
made a mere tool, was sent to prison for two months' im-
prinnmeizt and three years in a reformatory.