The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-13 00:00:00

DONCASTER RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.)

TRIAL STAKES.

Van Winkle
Jack Sheppard
Five ran.
SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM.

Caliph
Bourgeois

Nine ran.

ARRIVED.—BoId Buccleuch and Thames Ditton.

TEE LATE P. M. FEENET, ESQ.

It is with deep pain that v e have to record the sadden
and premature death of P. M. Feeney, Esq., a gentle-
man who was for more than 14 years honourably con-
nected with the reporting and literary departments of
this journal, to which his large and varied attainments,
quick wit, and graceful facility of comp isition and ex-
pression, rendered him an able and most valuable con-
tributor. Few men engaged in the severe and arduous
service of the London daily nress have ever maintained
so long a connection with it with hiAier honour to them-
selves, or with er, ater advantage to the press itself, than
Mr. Feeney. Of the multifarious demands which a
newspaper incessantly makes upon the mental energy
and literary acquirements of its retainers, there was not
one which he was not always able to meet with rare
capacity and un•natche 1 promptitude ; and as there vi as
nothing too high to las above, or too small to be below,
the ready grasp of his comprehensive talent, so was there
nothing in itself so high that his genius could not ele-
vate it, nor anything so small that his pleasant fancy
and playful wit could not adorn and beautify it. He
was greatly beloved by every one to whom he ever be-
came known, He carried into all the relations of pri-
vate life the same genial temperament and quick intel-
ligence which distinguished his literary career ; and the
associates of his labours have now to lament, in his pre-
mature withdrawal from among them, one of those irre-
parable losses that create in human intercourse a void
which no ether companionship can fill—a shadow which
no subsequent joy can efface. The more sacred sorrows
of the home once lighted by his presence we must not
attempt to unveil ; but even here our regrets are not
unmingled with the bright memory of life's tenderest
sympathies gently borne, and life's noblest duties man-
fully fulfilled.—Morning Herald.
[We add our cordial but regretful sympathy to the
above, for Mr. Feeney was really a most worthyand urs-
assuming gentleman. We knew him well, for his first
connection with the London press was by The Sun,
where he remained for about tem years, during which
period he often rendered very essential service in our
extraordinary expresses during the memorable agitation
of the Reform Bill, Corn-laws, &c. He was one of our
staff reporting Sir Robert Peel's speech at Glasgow,
which reached The Sun office within twenty-four hours
of its delivery, notwithstanding the great snow-storm,
which blocked up a large number of Tory members on
their way to be present at a division, which baffled
their precious schemes. There were but few railways
in those days ; but the energy and enterprise of The
Sets beat all the London papers together by nearly
twenty-four hours.—Ed. SUN.]

THE PACIFIC TENDENCIES OF THE
NEW EMPEROR.

(Front the Constitationnel of yesterclay.)

The Emperor Nicholas was not merely a man, but,
like all other Czars who succeeded each ether on the
throne of the Romanoffs, he personified a system, a
people, and a tradition. Though the man is dead, the
people, the tradition, and the system remain. Whatever
name he may bear, the sovereign who reigns at St. Pe-
tersburg is always the Czar, and the Czar is not Nicho-
las, or Alexander, but it is the idea of Catharine and of
Peter, and what is still more, of Russia. The Emperor
Alexander, in succeeding Nicholas, can therefore nei-
ther change the policy of his ancestors, nor smooth down
the difficulties of the present state of affairs. His lan-
guage may be more moderate, his manners more kind,
and his nature perhaps less tyrannical ; he may in his
relations with Europa evince more courtesy and ame-
nity, but it does not depend on his own will to accede
voluntarily to cond:tions of peace which might di-
minish the grandeur and curtail the powers of Russia.
These conditions can only be imposed on him by the
authority of victory. This is the feeling which is
now generally manifested by the press of Germany, bet-
ter situated perhaps than any other to understand what
is the true state of the question. Thus the Boersenh,a//e
of Hamburg, of the 7th inet., states that very illusory
hopes have been founded on the death of the Emperor
Nicholas. That journal cannot bring itself to think that
the Emperor Alexander will ever consent to transform
the military port of Sebastopol into a commercial one,
and destroy the strongest and most formidable bulwark
that Russia possesses in the Black Sea, and the asylum
of the domination of the Czars over a point of the globe
from whence they menace at the same time Asia and
Europe, Persia and Turkey. The situation of the
Eastern question before the conference at Vienna is,
therefore, now precisely what it was before the death
of the Emperor Nicho,ay. This is tbe opinion also of
the Augsburg Gazette, which is persuaded that the
change which has taken place on the throne of Russia
gives no fresh chance' for peace. This idea is also that
of the Ost Deutsche Post of Vienna, which refuses to
see in the ranewal of the powers and the confirmation
of the instructions given to Prince Gortschakoff any
guarantee for the moderation of the Emperor Alexander.
This is also the opinion of Spenser's Gazette, which does
not think that it can be possible for the negotiations of
Vienna to lead to any definitive solution until the fate of
Sebastopol is decided, for in its opinion no peace which
should leave that citadel of Russia in the Black Sea
standing, would offer any getvantee for the future secu-
rity of Europe. Voss's Gazette, the Wanderer, and the
Hanover Gazette express the same idea in different

terms. The Volkslealle goes further, and states that the
death of the Emperor Nicholas has rather weakened
than strengthened the hopes of peace. In fact they all
seem to come to this conclusion :—" The Emperor
Alexander may regret that Russia should have engaged
'in a rash struggle with Europe under unfavourable cir-
cumstances. But he can no longer draw back except by
force, and now that the sword has left the scabbard, it
will not be returned to it until Europe, which now sees
the object to which Russia aspires, shall have gained the
cause of civilisation on fields of battle."