28 NOVEMBER 1874, Page 3

The Government of Germany has given way about the National

Bank. It is to be a German, and not a Prussian one. A Bill with that object is to be prepared—after the consent of the separate Parliament of Prussia has been obtained—and laid before -the Federal CounciL It is suspected from the complete amenity -with which Prince Bismarck has borne his apparent defeat by the Rouse, and the absence of any prosecutions of Opposition Members, that he wished his hand to be forced, so as to be able to say to -the Federal Council, "This is the will of the people." He does not give way like that when he is in earnest.