The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, May 23.
The Prince Imperial, who is rapidly recovering
from his late illness, came to the Tuileries from St.
Cloud yesterday afternoon.
It is asserted that the adjournment of the depar-
ture of the King of Prussia to Paris is owing to the
wish expressed by the Emperor Napoleon that this
visit should take place simultaneously with that of
the Emperor of Austria, who cannot come to Paris
until after his coronation as King of Hungary.
BOURSE, May 22, Three o'clock.—The marke
closed as follows :-
11 per Cents 9B 75
Do. end month
3 per Cents. 69 8S
Do. end month 69 871
Credit Mobilier 382 5u
Do. end month 382 5U
Credit Fourier —
I Do. end month 1475

Bank Shares 3500
Italian Loan 52 50
Do. end month 52 35
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred
(axe.

______...____
For Account.
Orleans
Northern 1213 75
Lyons and Mediterranean 912 50
Southern 575
Western 570
Eastern
S trdinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
SltragosE a
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman,.

77 50

Mr. Baxter, 11/1.P., on the Reform Bill,

Speaking at Dundee, on Monday, Mr. Baxter,
M.P., said the Reform Bill as amended was, on the
whole, a good one. It was a measure of enfran-
chisement of the greatest possible advantages, and
one which could not have been expected from the
Whigs, simply because no Government expected to
carry such a measure in the House of Commons.
(Hear, hear.) He welco,ned the bill, and would
support it as it stool with all his heart ; but at the
same time they ought to bear in mind that they
owed this bill, not to the Tories, but to the people
themselves—(applause)—the people, led by such
men as Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright, who had
all along been the steady, consistent friends-of pro-
gresi. So long as he could recollect, he never re-
membered to have seen in the House of Commons
such anxiety to consider the great measure of re-
form, altogether apart from party ends and party
purposes, as existed on the Liberal side. No doubt
some few gentlemen who had been in office
were naturally anxious to get into office
again ; but he was certain there were not 50 men
sitting on their side of the house who had any desire
to upset the present Government. (Cheers.) On the
contrary, he was convinced that the great majority
on the Liberal side thought it was in many respects
for the interests of the country that her Majesty's
present advisers should remain in office, not only to
carry the Reform Bill, but to carry some other ad-
ministrative measures which were greatly needed,
and which their predecessors had failed to overtake.
There had been an attempt made by certain Tory

newspapers in the country to represent that, under
the mask of great fairness, Mr. Gladstone and his
friends were manoeuvring to displace the Ministry
He could pledge his word that the very reverse w

the case ; and he believed that, had they been more
unanimous, they could have got some weeks ago
even a better bill than was now offered. He be-
lieved there would now be no attempt made to im-
pede the Government in passing the bill in its pre-
sent form. If passed into law the bill would settle
the franchise question in their time, but the redis-
tribution clauses were totally inadequate. These
clauses did not come up to the requirements of the
times and of the people in the least; and he thought
that, if the Government scheme was not very greatly
extended, in a year or two they would have the
whole matter to revise again, whereas if the Go-
vernment were to revise their decision about the
redistribution of seats, they might be able this or
next year to pass a bill for the redistribution of
seats which would be satisfactory for 20 years to
come.

FIREWORKS AT TIIE CRI STAL PAL kCE.—A great
display of fireworks and illumination of fountains will
take place this evening at the Crystal Palace. The pro-
gramme includes a salute of t weuty-ene aerial maroons,
a balloon ascent to exhibit magnesium and thallium lights;
a set piece, centred by a double triangle wheel, to be sur-
rounded by Guilloche, and also by twelve illuminated
vertical wheels, encircled by a thirty-feet ray star, de-
lineated by coloured lances, the festoons of stars filled in
with wreaths of white fire wheels, finishing with twelve
brilliant suns on the outer circle, within the 'wreaths ; a
set piers, commencing with a rainbow wheel, extended by
four chromatropes, centred by illuminated triangle
wheels with rayonant fire, surrounded by triangle wheels
in brilliant fire, finishing with a curtain of silver fire and
coloured shells, grand salvos of coloured shells, rapidly
fired into each other, aided by flights of pearl and gold
streamers; brilliant illumination of the centre fountains
and series of upper fountains by coloured lights, batteries
of guns, and aerial maroons, to be followed by batteries of
Roman candles and flights of one hundred coloured shells ;
the grand finale will be a bouquet of fifteen hundred
coloured rockets. The fireworks will commence about
nine o'clock, and the illumination of fountains about a
quarter past nine. It will terminate by half-past nine, but
the palace will remain lighted up until eleven o'clock.
The engine-drivers on the Punjab railway have
struck work on account of certain stoppages being
• made by Croveraraut from their monthly Fey.