The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-29 00:00:00

RAILROAD BONDS.
Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage,
not Convertible 1875.... 831 84i
Illinois Central. 6 per Cent 1873... 831 841
Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland
Bonds 1860... 88 89
Illinois Central (Shares), $ ?,5 paid
Michigan Central Bp. Cent., Convert 1860... 94 95
Do. do. do. ........ 1869... 94 95
New York Central 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 921 931
New York Central 6 per Cent., not
Convertible 1883... 80 82
New York and Erie 7 per Cent. Ist Mort-
gage
New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort-
gage 1883... 87 88
N.
York and Erie 7p. Cent. Convertible 1862... 84 85
A • York and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking
Fund 1875... 831 84
Panama Sterlim, Bonds 1864... 91 96
Pennsylvania Central 6p. Cent., Ist Mort 1880... 891 901
A special meeting of the Scottish Australian In-
vestment Company was held to-day, for making
certain alterations in the now deed, previously to
bringing the company under the new Limited
Liability Act, which was carried, and the meeting
adjourned.

The report of the West-end and Croydon Rail-
way Company, read at the meeting to-day, stated
That the lino would be opened in about six weeks.
The accounts showed cash at bankers, 29,917/. 18s.
From New York the letters mention that the
specie movement was exciting increased attention.
On the 9th inst. the amount of the precious
metals in the city banks was $13,270,303, and
there had since arrived $1,470,000, increasing the
stock to $14,740,603. The shipments, meanwhile,
were $1,844,000. The demand for money was
increasing, and the rates of interest tended up-
wards. Speculative securities were active, but at
fluctuating quotations.
No improvement has occurred in the English
Stock Market, which remains rather flat, at pre-
vious quotations. The inquiry for money in the
` Uouse " has slightly increased, owing to the loan
instalment paid yesterday, and the amount of capital
required to-morrow for the final adjustment of the
account in railway shares and foreign stocks. Con-
sols for moneyhavo been 95 to 958, and 95 to 95/; for
account they have receded 11, per cent., viz., to 951
I. Exchequer Bills are lls. to 14s. prem., and
the Bonds are 1003 The New Three per Cents.
are 951 to 96, and the Reduced 05:- L Bank
Stock is 219 to 2192.

In Foreign Securities there are not many deal-
ings, but prices rule heavy. Turkish 6 per Cents.
are 103 A a, and the 4 per Cents. 1038. Spanish
3 per Ceuts. remain at 444, and Sardinian Bonds
have been 914 21. Russian 5 per Cents. are marked
112. Dutch 21 per Cents. 651, and the 4 per
Cents. 98.

The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 7 A ; Mexican,
22 ; Peruvian, 82 84; ditto 3 per Cents., 58 G 0;
Portuguese 4 per Cents., 46 7 ; Russian 5 per
Cents., 111 13 ; ditto 44 per Cents., 98 100 ; Spa-
nish 3 per Cents., 441 5 ; ditto new Deferred,
25i i; ditto Passive, 6i 7.
Although no material decline has taken place in
the prices of Railway Shares the market is rather
depressed, especially for Caledonian, which have
receded 2/. to 3/. The dividend, it is stated, is
only ss. per share, and complaints are mada at the
tardiness with which the directors have made the
announcement. Brightons are rather better, but
in the other lines there is a decline of about to
per cent. Rigas aro 1 premium.
Mining, Banking, and Miscellaneous are about
the same as before.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From tke Official List:
nslnebt done.
Bank Stock
3 per Cont. Reduced Annuities..... "A
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities P5h 5
Now 3 per Cent. •Annuities
Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860..
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 IS3/4 7-16 9-16
India Bonds, £lOOO
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, lid.
£1000.
Small
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3.3 per Cent. lOO4
Ditto, 1859
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
Russian Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent ll2
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Spanish Bowls, 3 per Cent
Warkieh Bonds, 6 per cent lO3.
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Div!,:enis on the above payable in London.
Dateh Exel.ange, 2 per Cent., 12 Guilders 653
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, money 95 95A
rDitto, Account

THE METROPOLITAN COUNTY COTJRT DISTRICTS.—
By the new County Courts Act the several districts of
the county courts in the metropolis are to he treated as
" one district ;" where a plaintiff shall dwell or carry on
business and the defendant shall dwell or carry on busi-
ness in the distriot of any of the courts, the summons
may issue and be served either in the district in which
the plaintiff shall dwell or carry on business, or in the
district in which the defendant shall dwell or carry on
buainego.