The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-29 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

We have received by the Ballarat our Australian
letters and journals to the 15th August. The
political intelligence from Victoria is not important.
All parties were waiting the arrival of the new
Constitution.

The quantity of gold received at Melbourne in
the week ending the 4th of August was 42,297
ounces ; in the week to the 11th of August 40,645
ounces.

The price remains at 3/. 163. 6d. per ounce.
Drafts against gold are at par. Freight of gold
is 44d. per ounce. Insurance 2i per cent.
The price of flour is declining. Fine qualities
are from 441. to 451. per ton of 2,000 lb. ; seconds
401. to 431. ; wheat at the mills is bought at 163.
and 17s. per bushel.

THE POSITION OF GORTSCHAKOFF AND
HIS ARMY.

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post says:
"It appears from various reports of the German
journals that the troops which entered Odessa, when
that town was threatened by the allied fleets, have
since been marched off again to Kherson and Nicolaieff.
The Emperor himself is directing the disposition
of his forces, and the defence of the two remaining
grand depots of the Black Sea, these points evidently
immediately occupying the attention of the enemy.
It is to save the marine resources of the empire that the
Czar Alexander, like the Czar Nicholas, is most anxious.
The defeat of an army is not so much felt as the loss of a
ship, and those maritime resources on which the traditional
ambition of Russia must depend for future conquest.
Now, as I have before ventured to remark, judging from
the various public information which reaches Paris
through the German journals, it is very questionable if
the Allies will trouble the enemy at all at either of
these two points. It is clear enough that the allied
generals' game is strategical, and the enemy is so situ-
ated that he must fall into one or other of the traps.
If Gortschakoff leaves the north side of Sebastopol and.
retreats on Simpheropol, he can scarcely hope to cross the
Belbek and Alma without risking a battle ; and it is Fro•
bably on the wisdom of an operation of this nature that
the grand council of war was held the other day in the
presence of the Emperor. But supposing again that the
Russian General succeeds in reaching Simpheropol with tke
wreck of an army, the Allies will yet cut off his comcouni-
, cations with Perekop by the advanced troops which we
know have pushed on from Eupatoria. Then, again,
our position at Kinburn paralyses the connecting gut
of the peninsula, and will certainly prevent the Rus-
sians from advancing to secure the beleaguered army
corps of the Crimea. Then, again, the winter is rapidly
approaching, and the steppes of the Crimea will become
__seine but a huge grave-yard for any troops which may
attempt to u“..s them. On the whole then we conclude
the allies are in a favourable position and the enemy in
a very deplorable one. Meanwhile, what is Russia (Leine
The militia of the vast empire is brought up to the scene
of action to fill the gaps of war and disease in the disheart.
ned Russian army. The Russian generals ofthe Crimea pro-
claim to the Muscovite legions that "they will not retreat
whilst an enemy is on Russian ground." The north forts of
Sebastopol discharge their shot and shell ; new works
are thrown up, and convoys are seen leaving Prince
Gortschakoff's present position ! Probably then it
has been decided within the last few days that the
army cannot hold its ground, and when the last
long line of carts are winding their way in the stillness
of night through the gloomy gorges of the Belbek, the
Crimea will he shook with another state suicide as
the northern forts are blown up, and scatter the ground
with the fragments of barbarian ambition.
Public attention will then be directed to the advanced
French lines on the Belbek ; the forces which are closing
in from Eupatoria, and more especially, perhaps, to
operations of which Kinburn will be the central point.

Row: COLLEGE OP SURGEONS.—The following gen..
tlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma, were admitted members of the collega
at the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 26,h
ainin William Hall, army ; William
Carr, Gomersal, Leeds ; Frederic William Granger.
army; John Winter Drylaad, Newbury, Berkshire;
John Alexander Harvey, Kingston, Canada West; W 1-
Earn Towneend Storrs, Church Missionary Society,
China ; David Picachy, Calcutta ; John Stevenson,
Gateshead ; Francis Joseph Dowling, Chew-Magna,
Somersetshire ; Joseph Allen, Stradhrook, Suffolk;
Edmund Robinson, Birmingham ; Edward Thomas Fur.
niv,ill, Egham, Surrey ; Frederick. James Pettingal.
Calcutta ; Edward Phelan Forrest, army ; and France
Henry Wilson Iles, Bintirook-hill, Louth, Lincolnshire.
At the same meeting of the Court Mr. Edward Achim
passed his examination for naval surgeon. This gentle-
man had previously been admitted a member of the col•
!
lege, his diploma bearing date April 16, 1847.