SLAVONISM.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 417, 22 October 1861, Page 3

SLAVONISM.

The French papers are still making a little material out of the windfall of certain documents of the c Slavophile Society ' of Moscow, which have recently been brought to light in some surreptitious manner, but whose genuineness has not been denied, and in which its president, M. Pogodine, who, not to use a harsher adjective, may be described as a very enthusiastic slavon, propounds a sketch of what he conceives to be the true and natural policy of Russia, which he conceives ought to join with some other nation, in order to divide the world with the favored accomplice Alter examining the advantages and disadvantages of such an alliance with the other powers of Europe, and deciding against them all, on one ground or another —with Spain, because she is effete—with Germany, because that country is given up to dreamers and twaddlers—with England, because her interests in the East are antagonistic to those of Russia, M. Pogodine concludes for an alliance, offensive and defensive, with France, which alliance, he argues, would be in every way useful to both countries, inconvenient to neither \ and by means of which the empire of the world would be infallibly divided between them: France becoming Lady Paramount of extra Russia and Europe, with India, Africa, and Syria, and Russia combining the rest of the Old World under her sceptre. What is to become of America is not stated.

The French papers, with laudable modesty t decliue iha brilliaut future thus of-

f'ered them; and seem to think that the nails of the Polar bear are rather too sharp, and his fur too shaggy, for so intimate an alliance with la gr-ancle nation. They all hint, however, that the intentions of Russia being such as M. Pogodiue sets forth, (and also is there not the portentous shadow of that testementary effusion of the irreatest of the Czars?) England had really belter look out.

Yet the • Irish Question,' and the ' lonian Question,' and tho Canadian Question,' and the l Question of murdered India writhing in her shroud,' and the s Question of her famishing proletaries starved and driven to madness by her haughty aristocracy,' settled as soon as she conveniently can, and so be a little better able to weather the storm which so many portents seem to agree in portending is to break upon her some of these days.