The interview lasted for more than two hours.

Count Bismarck told Mr.Malet that the Prussians meant to have Metz and Strasburg, and should remain in France until they were obtained.

The Prussians did not intend to dismantle them, but to make them stronger than they at present are.

"The French," he said, "will hate us with an undying hate, and we must take care to render this hate powerless." As for Paris, the German armies would surround it, and with their several corps d'armee, and their 70,000 cavalry, would isolate it from the rest of the world, and leave its inhabitants to "seethe in their own milk." If the Parisians continued after this to hold out, Paris would be bombarded, and, if necessary, burned.

My own impression is that Count Bismarck was not such a fool as to say precisely what he intended to do, and that he will attack at once; but the event will prove.