The Shasta courier., 1854-12-16
FROM EUROPE.
SEBASTOPOL NOT YET TAKEN.

SEBASTOPOL NOT YET TAKEN.
The latest intelligence received from the Cri-
mea, is to the 30th Oct, at which time the siege
Of Sebastopol was going ON favorably.
The piece of European news OF most interest
to Americans, is the expulsion of Mr.. Soule,
American Minister to Spain, from the territory
of that scoundrel conqueror, Louis Napoleon.
A London correspondent of New York paper
gives the following account Of the AFFAIR."
Mr. Soule, on his arrival at Caias, en- route
to Madrid, was asked to show his passports
Having done so, he was told he must leave the
country by the next steamer, and that he would
not be allowed in the meanwhile to go any
whese out of Calias, being, in fact, placed under
surveillance.
There must be mistake, SIR" said our Min
ister "do You know who am"
q There is not the slightest mistake, sir" was
the reply; you Mr.. Soule, the Ambassador
OF the United States of America at the Court Of
Spain. and have orders not to let you pass
:" Where your orders, sir?' asked Mr.
Sonic
!" This is no business of yours, sir; these or
ders for me, and am acting upon them"
said the Commissary.
Mr.. Soule returned to London.
Mr. MAsoS.-The news of the Calais outrage
having reached him-went to the Foreign Office
and wished To NJ. Druoyn de l'Hueys inn
mediately. He was left waiting full two hours
Admitted at last, he remarked fiis of ALL upon
his tardy reception. Some apologies were made,
but in IA tone and manner that convinced MIR
Mason that he had been kept waiting purposely
He dropped that matter, however, and passed 10
the object OF his official call and asked the rea-
son why MIR. Soule had not been permitted 10
pass through France en- route to Spain.
Well" said NJ. Druoyn de fIluys in very
impertinent Tone 9 there are reasons Tor that"
Being pressed for these reasons Mr. Mason was
told there were three of them:
l. The treatment OF NJ. Dillon, the French
Consul, in California.
.. The letter Of Mr.. Sanders to the French
pie, and
3. Cuba
The two Ministers parted very much excited,
and Mr.. Mason fnlly prepared to ask for his
passports He sent, however, the special mes
senger TO Mr.. Buchanan. before he decided on
that step.
koTzEBUE.-Here is a curious bit of history
donby interesting, just now for its political
bearing:
1901 Recalling scene in this play, Kotze-
bue's Count Benyowsky ; or, the Conspiracy of
kamtschatka, in connection with the interest
which the new State of California has since ex-
that this aluring country will not prove as un-
fortunate TO some of our adventurous people, as
did once an alluson to it to poor Kotzebue. The
general reader must recollect, that many years
ago Russia then nnder the government Of the
mad emperor Paul, was suspected Of some ag-
gressive designs upon the region which has
since become ours. A scene is accordingly ia
troduced into this play, in which the comman-
der of the Cossacks, a drunken visionary fellow,
while III his cups, proposes to the Count the fol-
lowing plan: To settle colony upon the Aleu-
tian Islands, YOU he says. shall assist me in
bringing this scheme to perfection. You shall
persuade the Governor to propose it to the Em-
press-I will make you all free and happy. The
Governor ahall be promoted from this place TO
Ochotz you made Governor of Kamschatka: 1
regent of the Aleutian Islands, and, before you
are aware Of it. CoNQrERoR OF CALIFORNIA
For this neat piece of characteristic waggery
poor KotZebue seized at midnight by the
orders of the Emperor, and hurried off to Sbe-
ria from which place he was recalled only, as
has been since supposed, through the influence
of some powerful Germans at ST. Petersburgh
Kotzebue, in some of his writings, alludes deli
cately to this affair 1t is interesting. and but
just to the Emperor to add that on his return
his fright was rewarded by several lucrative ap-
pontments-a matter which, at the time seemed
good fortune, but which proved in the end, The
cause of his untimely death"