THE RUSSIANS IN THE PACIFIC.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIV, 1 December 1855, Page 2

THE RUSSIANS IN THE PACIFIC.

[From the Melbourne Age, October 5.]

The accounts given below of the unexpected movements of the Russians in the Pacific will no doubt be read with eager interest, relating as they do to one of the most important episodes in the great conflict now waging, and tha.t one in which we Australians are most neafly interested. The details of these movements given by the San Francisco journals are so full that it is not necessary for us to enlarge upon the subject here, further than to remark that the intelligence must prove very satisfactory to those colonists, both in Victoria and New South Wales, who have, ever since the breaking out of the war with Russia, been apprehensive of a predatory attack upon these colonies by that power. All fears of a Russian invasion are now, we think, set at rest as effectually as the most timid colonist could desire — as effectually, indeed,, as are those fears of a French invasion, which it was the fashion to entertain here some three or four years ago. In that conviction, our Sydney friends need not be so very urgent about the fortification of their splendid harbour; nor need we Melbourm'tes give ourselves much concern about the defences of Port Phillip Heads, the extension of the Amateur Rifle (we were going to write Theatrical) Club, or the speedy arrival of that ship of war which was launched with so much ceremony at Blackwall in July last. But, in the meantime, it will be intensely interesting to learn the result of the operations in the Amoor, which, however, we are safe in predicting must result in complete victory on the side of the allied fleets, since Russia was never strong on the water, and since, especially, the attitude of the Russian force in the Amoor is one of sullen resistance, not active aggression.