The German Parliament was opened on the 8th inst., with
a speech from the Throne, read by Prince Bismarck. The speech was unusually devoid of interest, containing nothing beyond an assurance that the Emperor's policy had retained the confidence of all foreign States, and that the power of Germany bad become a guarantee for the peace of Europe, and a long list of minor in- ternal reforms, the most important of which are a uniform military penal law, and a new regulation of "the position of the public functionaries of the Empire." Nothing whatever was said of the relations between Germany and France, and no allusion made to the outburst of prosperity within the Empire, which is already altering the manners of the people, driving up prices far above their old level, and making Berlin one of the most expensive capitals in the world.
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