31 JULY 1852, Page 11

The Honiteur of yesterday announces the resignation of M. de

Casa- blanca, Minister of State, and his nomination as a Senator. The Mar- quis Turgot is also gazetted as Senator.

A decree in the Honiteur of this morning names M. Fould Minister of State.

The Assemblee Nationale denies the existence of any such treaty as that which the Horning Chronicle has published this week ; and the Paris cor- respondent of the Times asserts that General Castelbajae, the French Mi- nister at St. Petersburgh, has been assured by the Russian Government that the treaty does not exist.

M. Odillon Barrot, in a letter dated Bougival, July 23, excuses him- self to the electors of the Department of the Aisne, for declining to sit in the Council-General, under the present regime. The following passage has an interest beyond the locality of the Aisne.

"Now that on the ruins of the Constitutional and Parliamentary go- vernment of my country is founded, not in the form of temporary and inci- dental dictatorship, but as a permanent government, the most absolute power that perhaps exists in the world—now that France, traversing the fatal circles around which she has been turning for sixty years past, has again passed from the most excessive liberty to authority the most concen- trated and the most devoid of all serious control—when the deceitful forms of universal suffrage and of popular sections, with the absence of all free discussion' of all possible assembling, of all previous concert between the electors, leave to the candidates indicated by the authorities the secure chance of success, and do not seem to have been maintained but only to mark the false semblance of liberty, the sad and humiliating realities of despotism— what cooperation can you require of me for such a Government? What good could I do ?

"The implicit adhesion which I should give by my oath to the destruction of our dear and old liberties, would it not effect ten times more evil than any good resulting from my presence in the Council-General ? I appeal to you, my dear fellow-citizens. Habituated, as we are, to think very nearly in the same way—to consult each other, as it were—say if, by the determination I adopt, and which pains my heart so much, I do not render to our liberal cause the last and only service I can render to it. The good that we have commenced in the canton of Crecy has made sufficient advance to make it almost a matter of indifference, so far as regards our material interests, whether I remain or do not remain your representative in the Council-Ge- neral. And as to the public and moral interests, believe me it is much bet- ter for us all that I should maintain our faith in liberty, and fidelity to our liberal banner. It is much better, when it is every where proclaimed that France is not worthy of that liberty she has followed amidst so many viols- aitudes, earned by so many sacrifices, that there should still be men who per- sist in believing her worthy of it. I ought, and I desire, to be one of those men should I die before I see my hopes realized."

The letter was published in the Independance Beige, and that journal had been stopped by the French post. In London, gossip has announced a work by M. Victor Hugo, and the French papers mention the fact ; but they dare not name the book, which the said gossip entitles "Napoleon the Little."