The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-30 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL SUMMARY.

The market for sound stocks has been firm since the
last steamer, with a fair demand for Government and
State Stocks for foreign account.
In exchanges there is not much doing, but the market
is very firm. Sterling 101 to 104. Francs 5081 to
507 i. Amsterdam, 414 to 41k. Bremen, 79 to 79;.
Hamburgh, 36i to 36k.
There is no change to notice in the Money•market,
excepting an increasing activity and firmness of rates.
The amount received at the sub• Treasury was dolls.
71,157; paid, dolls. 144,040; balance, dolls. 2,565,742.
Freights are firm for breadstuffs but dull for cotton.
The dry goods market is exceedingly quiet. The
country demand is in abeyance, and that in the city is
confined to the wants of clothiers, and to a shipping in-
quiry for the East Indies and South America. Stocks
are heavy.
Ashes—The market is steady. with a fair demand;
sales of 150 barrels at dolls. 5 for pots, and dolls. 5 50
for pearls.
Cotton—Since the last steamer the cotton market has
been inactive, with sales of SQO to 1,200 bales per day.
On Wednesday the market recovered ic. per lb., but has
since been languishing. The accounts from the south
show no new feature.

Flour and Meal—There is increased heaviness in our
market for the lower grades of State and western flour,
and prices ere lower, especially for western, which is
offered freely and is pressed on the market. The de-
mand for export and the trade is moderate, and the re-
ceipts are still large, far in excess of the demand. There
is still some speculative inquiry for desirable lots.

Grain—There is a limited demand for domestic
wheat for milling, and prices still tend downward.
There is some inquiry for Canadia❑ for export checked
only by the absence of freights. We have only to notice
a sale of 3,000 bushels good mixed Canadian, at 9c. in
bond. Rye is not plentiful, and is in fair demand at bet-
ter prices.

SHIP NEWS.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.

ZELATING TO A. ROCKY SHOAL IN THE FAIRWAY OF
THE ENTRANCE OP THE HARBOUR ON ST. THOMAS.

Admiralty, June 24.
Sir,—My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
having received from Lieutenant Lawrence, commanding
her Majesty's surveying vessel Scorpion, a report of an
important rocky shoal in the Fairway of the entrance of
the harbour of St. Thomas, in .the West Indies, I am
commanded by their Lordships to send you herewith a
espy of the said report for the information of the com-
mittee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's.
W. A. B. ILI.3uLToN.
Captain G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's.
ORHOLN Rocs.

Extract of a letter from Lieutenant Lawrence to the
Hydrographer:—
" During the;ccurse of our operations we'have very un-
expectedly come across a coral shoal at the entrance of
the harbour, having only 20i feet of water on it at low
tides. It stands directly in the Fairway, and is a danger'
of some consequence. The shallowest part of the shoal
extends in about a north and south direction from 80 to
100 feet, and east and west from 30 to 40 feet. It ap-
pears to be of coral formation, and full of inequalities,
from the lead dropping off the surface of the rocks into
5 and 5i fathoms. Beyond the nucleus of the shoal the
coral extends 60 fathoms to the westward, with depths
of from 26 to 28 feet, and about 40 to the eastward,
having 28 to 30 feet, and, occasionally, 34 feet. The sur-
rounding ground is composed of sand and rock, with a
depth of 37 feet on the north edge, and from 37 t 039 feet
on the south."

To AVOID IT.

" The highest part of Prince Robert's Rock on with
the portico of Fredericksberg- house, N. E., clears it to
the eastward, and the Outer Green Coy on with the ex-
tremity of the point, on which Muhlenfel's battery is
situated, clears it to the northward."

LITERPOOL, JUNE 27.—Wind S.—Halcyon, hence
for New York, was dismasted in a gale from S.E. on the
Bth of June; also lost her rudder, and was fallen in with
on the 11th in lat. 39, long. 55, by the W. H. Wharton,
arrived here from Mobile, which took from her about
145 passengers and part of the crew; the remainder were
taken on hoard the Connecticut, from Mobile for this port.
GRAVESEND, JuNk 29.—Wind E., light, fine.
Arrived—Minerva, from Dram; Waterwitch, from
Wismar; Familien, from Norway; Point, from Jamaica;
St. Witten, and Sommeren, from Norway; Endracht,
and Catherina, from Emden; Fanny, Pallas, and Trent,
from Memel; Active, from Finland; Isabella, and
Ocean, from Stettin; John Murray, from Leghorn; Te-
ronia, from Constantinople; Benedict, and Eliza, from
Riga; Margaretta, from Rostock; Fredericka Elvin,
from Denmark; Solid, from Copenhagen; Vixen, from
Swinneborg; Ann Mary, from St. Petersburgh; Johanna
Sophia, from Stockholm; Auguste, and Triton, from
Riga; Hyndekoper, and Odelia Maria, from St. Peters-
burgh; Stadt Dordrecht, fromDordt; Triton, from
Ostend; Seine, from Boulogne; Menai, from Calais;
City of Rotterdam, from Dunkirk; Giraffe, Apollo, and
Rainbow, from Rotterdam; Lion, from Harlingen;
Fleche, from Ghent; Mary, from Newfoundland.
Sailed—Thames and Countess of Lonadale, for Ham.
burgh; Magnet and Ranger, for Amsterdam; Concordia,
Attwood, Batavier, and Earl of Auckland, for Rotter.
dam; Baron Osy, Antwerpen, and Amboirix, for Ant-
werp; City of London, for Dunkirk; Fame, for Calais;
William Jolliffs, for Havre; Albion, for Boulogne;
Camperdown, for Calcutta; Margaret Connell, for
Clyde; Stirlingshire, for Launceston; Jane Goodie, for
Swansea; Rose Standish, for Newport; Panther, for
Ostend; Dream, for Trieste; Gazelle, for Venice; Fal-
con, for Barbadoes; Rose, for Gibraltar; Blenheim, for
Hobart Town; Northern, for Constantinople; Governor
M‘Lean, for Cape Coast.