The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Nov. 26.—Two o'clock.—The aspect of
the market has completely changed, and an impor-
tant rise has taken place in the Stocks and chief
speculative Securities. French Threes have ad-
vanced per cent., to 69f. 70c. Italian Fives are
20c. higher, at 56f. 25c., but the most important
improvement is that on Credit Mobilier Shares,
which experienced the greatest fall during the past
week. These have regained the price of 600 f., and
advanced to 605 f., which is a rise of 17f. 50c.
Spanish Mobilier have gained 10f., at 320 f. Credit
Foncier and Comptoir d'Escompte have each ad-
vanced about sf. Transactions are quiet in Rail-
way Shares, which have only slightly varied.

Three o'Clock.—The market has closed as fol

Lows :

per Cents 99 40
Do. end month
3 per Cents. 69 67i
Do. end month 69 671
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month 603 75
Credit Fonder —
Do. end month 1377 50
RAIL'

Bank Shares 3625
Italian Loan 56 35
Do. end month 56 25
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred
'LYS.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern llBO
Lyons and Mediterranean 907 50
Southern 5Bl 25
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 4OO 25
North of Spain 122 50
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman.

93 75

A Noble Letter of Marshal Valliant's.

The following letter, said to have been addressed
by Marshal Vaillant to a working farrier, of the
Cote d'Or, of the same name, who desired to know
whether they were related, has appeared in some of
the papers. It is curious and characteristic, and,
as it has not been contradicted by the personage
most interested, may be considered as genuine :
" Sir,—You have written me an excellent letter.
The writer must be an honest man, and I should
feel very proud to be related to him, though I don't
know whether we shall be able to clear up that
point. My father, whom I was so unfortunate to
lose in 1823, had been district secretary at Dijon,
and afterwards Secretary-General of Prefecture of
the Cote d'Or in 1815. He was named represen-
tative during the Hundred Days, then dismissed
from his post at the prefecture and imprisoned for
being a Bonapartist. I was at that time with the
army behind the Loire. My father died poor, but
esteemed by every one. I don't think he had a
single enemy. Ido not resemble him in any way.
He was slight of frame, and lam big and burly. He
was gentle in manner, and I pass for being surly
and boorish. (A. fact.) In a word, he had as many
fine and excellent qualities as people say I have de-
fects, and I believe those who say so are not mis-
taken. My father brought up a large family—now
reduced in number. I have an unmarried sister at
Dijon ; another who is a widow, and one of whose
sons, M. Girrodde, is Engineer des Ponts et
Chausses at Chatillon-sur-Seine. He is therefore a
near neighbour of yours. I had a younger brother
whom I had the misfortune to lose in 1815. My
father had an elder brother who died librarian
of the town of Dijon. My grandfather kept a
little silk mercer's shop in the Place St. Vincent
a

Dijon. His father had been a shoe-
maker. I cannot go further back; my quarters
of nobility stop with the shoemaker. I have
heard say that one of my great uncles had been in
the army, and was wounded in Canada. My father
married a young woman named Canquoin. A brother
of my mother died parish priest of Geniis (Cote
d'Or). He was an excellent man, and we all greatly
regretted him. His brother had some post in the
Registry-office. We lost him in 1839. I have no
children, and it is the greatest sorrow which Heaven
could visit me with. I never asked it for wealth or
honours, and it has given me what I had no desire
for, and taken from me my stepson, the child of my
wife. We must submit to its decrees. I was born
at Dijon on the Gth of December, 1790 ; but I have
hardly any recollection of my mother. IVe were
very poor. We were tenderly brought up, but
amidst privations of every sort. The servant who
took care of us is still living at Dijon ; my sisters
and I love her like a mother, and she loves us as if
were her own children. God vouchsafes no longer
faithful creatures like this good woman, who re-
ceived us when we came into the world, and she
showed towards us a love such as it is impossible for
me to express. She refused twenty offers of mar-
riage to stay with us, and yet we must have been a
sad trouble to her. I entered the Polytechnic School
at 16,-and I left it to enter the Engineers. The grade
which of all others gave me the greatest pleasure
was that of corporal at the Polytechnic School, I

went through the campaign of Russia, and that of
1815. I was made prisoner at the close of 1813. I
was at 'Waterloo. I was wounded during the de-
fence of Paris in 1815. I had a leg fractured by a
musket ball at the siege of Algiers in 1830. My
commanding officers said they were satisfied with
me at the siege of Antwerp in 1832 ; and the Em-
peror said be was satisfied with me at the siege of
Rome. Such, sir, is my history almost complete. I
should be greatly pleased if you find in it any proofs
of a community of origin between your family and
mine. I pray you to receive the assurance of my
perfect esteem, and to believe me your devoted ser-
vant, ct MASIIAL VAILLANT."

THE LEA VALLEY.

~_~.

Yesterday a conference, attended by magistrates
and representatives of the local authorities of the
wide-spreading districts surrounding the Lea Valley
--an area almost equal to that of the metropolis
itself—was held at the Tottenham High Cross-
rooms, for the purpose of considering the impor-
tant question of uniting the districts in one general
system of drainage, similar to that of the scheme
adopted in the metropolis—a question which in its
bearings is of more than metropolitan interest.
The question in some measure arises from the
late outbreak of cholera, which drew public
attention to the foul state of the river Lea, that
stream having changed from a river celebrated
in song as " silvery" to little better than au open
sewer, the extra-metropolitan north and not th- eastern
districts—those not taken in by the metropolitan
main drainage scheme —freely draining into it. The
Tottenham Local Board of Health have had au in-
terim injunction obtained against it by the River
Lea Trust, to prevent it draining further into the
Lea, and the board, whose district is as freely drained
into by the districts higher up, called this very
necessary conference. There were present representa-
tives from Frien Barnet, Finchley, Highgate, Horn-
sey, Hackney, Enfield, besides those of Tottenham,
Mr. Healey, of the Metropolitan Board, Mr. Bod-
kin, Mr. Wyatt, Col. Jeakes, and other magis-
trates. Dr. Hall, the chairman of the Tottenham

Board of Health, occupied the chair, and in his
opening observations referred to a circular issued
by the board in calling the conference, pointing out
the necessity for these large and widespreading dis-
tricts being united in whatever was undertaken in

the way of sanitary improvement, so that they
might have one scheme instead of mere abortive
local efforts. lie said the importance of the ques-
tion was proved by the influential gathering there
to consider this question, which had become the
great social question of the day. Tottenham, he
said, had always been in the van of sanitary reform,
for when he as medical officer upwards of 20 years
since, seeing the great amount of preventible dis-
ease which prevailed in the district, reported upon
the matter, the district was one of the first to adopt
the Health of Towns' Act, which was afterwards
passed—namely, in 1848. Works were erected,
and the district started with the pipe system of
drainage and a constant supply of water, the sew-
age to be a source of profit by conversion into Bri-

tish guano. The works acted well ; but the guano
part of the scheme was a delusion, and as the popu-
lation increased very fast in this and the surround-
ing districts so the difficulties arose. The district
found itself able to deal with its own sewage, but it
was invaded in all quarters (it being between most
of the other districts and the rivers Lea and Thames),
and was at the present time virtually deprived of an
()Mini], being thus brought, after an outlay of
£60,000, to a complete dead luck. What was the
case of Tottenham to-day might be the case of the
other districts to-morrow; and it therefore behoved

them all to ccmbine to save themselves from falling
into the same difficulties. He urged them to con-
fine their attention to three points—the first, whe-
ther there was any scheme which would enable each
district to practically deodorize its sewage, and so
keep each from being a nuisance to the other ; se-
cond, whether any combined representation to the
Government would obtain the united districts an
outfall in the Metropolitan system ; and,
third, failing these, whether by combined
action the districts could not adopt an
independent outfall. Mr. Wyatt, the chairman of

the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum Committee, ad-
dressing himself to the first question, stated that
this subject had engaged the attention of the magis-
trates, and schemes had been tried. One, which
was very promising, and which had been mentioned
by the chairman, had proved an utter failure, the
cost of deodorising being very great indeed. Mr.
Healey, on the part of the Metropolitan Board, said
that there could be no doubt the works at Barking
were able to take the additional drainage of this
district ; but he thought it questionable whether
they would be able to take the whole of the outly-
ing districts of North London,which would want to
come in if an application were made to Parliament
for that purpose. These answers disposed of the
first two points, and the meeting then addressed
itself to considering a scheme, and it was proposed
to consider one drawn up by Mr. B. Denton, an
engineer, who had had his attention drawn to the
.abject by neighbouring landowners, who were de-
sirous of turning some marshes into building sites,
and had considered the whole subject. It was urged
on one hand that several of the districts had consi-
dered the question, and each had found its power-
lessness to proceed without combination with its
neighbours ; but they each had schemes. It was at
length resolved to form a committee of the repre-
sentatives of the districts, to give them power to
consider the question in all its bearings, so as to be
able to report upon and recommend some practical
measure to a further meeting of the conference. A
vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro-
ceedings.

MARKETS. --This day.

RAY.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 58 ; clover,
£4 lOs to £5 15s 0,1; and straw, £1 168 to £2 4s per load.
A moderato demand.
CUMBERLAND.—MoncIow hay, £3 5s to £4 8s Od; clover,
£4 lOs to £5 15s; and straw, £1 18s to £2 Os per load.
A fair inquiry.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 5s ; clover,
£1 10s to ..£5 15s Od and straw, £1 16s to £2 4s per load,
Trade quiet.

COLONIAL.

TEA.—Operations have been deferred until
,to-day, when
about 3,396 packages will be offered at public sale ; prices
are expected to rule a shade firmer.

SUGAR.—Business has been active, and a slight advance
has taken place in the rates obtained for good grocery de-
scriptions. Refined goods also, owing to the small quan-
tity on offer, are at slightly enhanced quotations.
COFFEE.—A moderate business has been done in both
plantation and native Ceylon, at full values.

RICE.—Tho dealings have been to a fair extent, and late
rates aro generally well maintained for cleaned descrip-
tions.

TALLOW.—The market has been very steady during the
week, the demand for consumption has been fair, but very
little business has been done on speculation. Some few
contracts for December have been closed. The market at
St. Petersburgh is quiet-13,000 casks remain on the spot.
49} to silver roubles with hand money was paid for a few
hundred casks for next August delivery—the exchange
was quoted 3l 1. To-day the market is steady at 44s for
December, 44s 6d Jan. to March, 45s March ; 44s 3d is paid
for now Y.C. on the spot, and 43s 9d for old ; 45s 6d South
American. Town tallow 43s 3d nett.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

The market opens fair. Sales probably 8,000
bales.

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Llwyngwair, was yesterday elected unopposed. In re-
turning thanks ho said he would support any well-con-
sidered measure of Reform, and this, he thinks, the pre-
sent Government likely to introduce. He would like to
see Dissenters relieved from the payment of church rates.
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