L'Occident s'en va; tout croule, tout s'abîme dans une conflagration générale, l'EUROPE DE CHARLEMAGNE aussi bien que l'Europe des traités de 1815, la PAPAUTE DE ROME _et toutes les royautés de l'Occident, le catholicisme_ et le protestantisme, _la foi depuis longtemps perdue_ et la raison réduite à l'absurde, l'ordre désormais impossible, la liberté desormais impossible, et sur toutes ces ruines amoncelées par elle, _la civilisation_ se suicidant de ses propres mains! Et lorsque, audessus de cet immense naufrage, nous voyons, _comme une arche sainte_, surnager cet empire plus immense encore, _qui donc pourrait_ douter de sa mission? Et est-ce à nous, ses enfans, à nous montrer sceptiques et pusillanimes?" Such then, it appears, are the sentiments of some of the most enlightened of the Russian diplomatists--such are the opinions and views presented to the Emperor by the men on whose reports and statements his foreign policy must of necessity be chiefly founded--such, above all, are the feelings and aspirations, the enmities and the means of action, which the nation fosters and on which it relies. It has been said that, in attacking the Hungarians, Russia is but fighting her own battle against the Poles, who are said to compose a large proportion of the Hungarian army; and those who desire to throw discredit on the Hungarian movement have nicknamed it a Polo-Majjar revolution. They must have been ignorant or regardless of the facts. Whatever the Austrian journals or proclamations may assert, Russia must know full well that in the Hungarian army there are not more than five thousand Poles, and only two Polish general officers, Dembinsk and Bem. That the Poles may think they see in a war between Russia and Hungary a favourable opportunity to revolt, is not improbable, and that, if the Poles should rise, they will find sympathy and support in the nation that Russia is attacking, must be inevitable. In the mean time, the Hungarians are preparing for the unequal contest. They have a well-equipped army of 160,000 men in the field, and a levy of 200,000 more has been ordered. Such is the national enthusiasm, that this whole number may probably be raised. This feeling is not confined to the Majjars, but extends to the Sclavonic population also. The following extracts from a letter received on the 14th May, by one of his correspondents, from an intelligent English merchant who has just returned from a visit to the Sclavonic districts of northern Hungary, on his commercial affairs, gives the latest authentic intelligence we have seen of the state of things in the Slovack counties, the only part of the country which the writer visited:--