The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-15 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA.—The operations have been very limited, and prices
have remained without any change of importance.
Suouit.—A very moderate business has been entered into,
and except for good and fine descriptions, prices have
slightly given way. In the refined market business has
been dull, and quotations show a slight decline.

COFFEE.—A moderate amount of business has been trans-
acted in colonial descriptions at about previous rates.
RlCE.—Only a limited inquiry has been experienced, low
East India qualities, however, havo been at fully previous
prices. In the other descriptions there is no change to
report.
SALTPETRE.—Business has been very dull, and prices
have in some instances slightly given way.
TALLOW.—A firmer tone has prevailed, the demand for
home consumption having slightly improved, while a large
speculative business has been done for forward delivery.
P,Y.C. on the spot is quoted 435, and last 3 months, 45s fid
per cwt.

Liverpool Cotton Market----This Day.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

A strong and firm market all the week, and
though the demand slightly slacked off at the close
prices remain steady. American ld., Brazil Id.,
Egyptian and Surat Id. to Id., Bengal id., and
China ld. per lb. dearer than last Friday.
Committee quotations for fair are, Orleans 251;
Mobile, 25; Upland, 241; Estimated Middling Or-
leans, 231 ; Mobile, 221 ; Upland, 22. Esti-
mated fair Egyptian 221. Sales of the
week, 78,270 bales, including 31,440 on speculation,
and 12,620 for exportation. Stock, 335,900 bales.
Sarat 81 to 194. Imports of the week, 64,867
bales. Sales probably about 6,000. Market quiet.

SERIOUS FIRES THIS DAL—An extensive con-
flagration took place this morning in the Eagle
Wharf-road, in an extensive range of workshops, and be-
fore the flames were extinguished a greater part of the buile-
ing was destroyed, and the two adjoining houses severely
damaged. About two o'clock another fire was discovered
by the police, in the house occupied by Mr. Jones, Twister's
court, Bunhill-row. Mrs. Jones and three other persons
were not rescued from the building before they were
severely injured. The house was entirely destroyed,
FEDERAL ARMY RETELATION S.—Advance copies
of the three volumes of the Report and Evidence
taken before the Committee on the Conduct of the War
have just been furnished to the various correspondents of
the Federal press. These volumes make in the aggregate
1,928 large octavo pages. It appears from a cursory glance

at the documents that Major:General Butler was asked
whether intoxicating liquors were used in the army. To
this General Butler replied as follows :—" They are, to a
most woful extent," As an illustration, General Butler

said, "We used to send a picket guard up a mile and a
half from Fortress Monroe. The men would leave per-
fectly sober, yet every night when they came back we
would have trouble with them on account of their being
drunk. Where they got tho liquor from we could
not tell. Night after night me instituted A rigorous
examination, but it was always the same. The men were
examined over and over again, their canteens were in-
spected, and yet we could find no liquor about them. At last
it was observed that they seemed to hold their guns up very
straight, and, upon an examination being made, it was i.oundt
that every whiskey;gun-barrel
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always the soldiers who do this. I ordered a search o
I have
Adams's Express Company, and examined. theyac
sent to the soldiers by their friends, and
sympatng
taken 150 different packages of liquor
and packages sent to the soldiers
a ye
he took measures ta
friends at home." General B.llutimerg
• suyeigade Commissary in
suppress this abuse.. Capt.. Williams,
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in that division who y
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men
enough to put the whole
battle." Since this testimony was taken the liquor supplies
have, to a considerable extent, been abridged. It appears by
the testimony of Major-General Butler
ii days before Major-General Banks loft Ne
known in New Orleans that the former was w York, it was
by him, and a bet of "ono hundred t to be superseded
made in a " Secesh club-room" that Withino ten dollars" was
Butler would be relieved by General 2O days General
scouts brought in the same Banks. Gen. Weitzel's
"drunken broker," whom G news front the Teche, and a
Island for "three rnonths ,e,neral Butler had put on Ship
time there, came to General, Shepleyand who had served out his
and boasted of the fact of " G as early as that day,
by General Banks." General Butler. being superseded
Lieut.-Colonel -
Hampshire regiment, testified that°honelFiske, o. f the 2d New
was informed by a
Staff officer, about the Bth of February, 1862,th Potomacthat the
enemy had cried out the countersign
river before our pickets had received it.aeroTshe
countersign
eonnter
was ' Chippeway.' This was the day when the Pensacola
Was expected. down. Tho supposed reason given for it was
that it might have been taken from the telegraph wire. Tho
information was telegraphed down to our division 'that the
Pensacola would come down that night.' What the rebels
cried out was ' The Pensacola is coming down to-night,
isn't she ? Damn her, we are ready for her ! We have
The witness said ho
got your countersign—Chippeway.' "
had no other theory by which to explain how the enemy
obtained the countersign. at
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