POSTSCRIPT.

SATURDAY,

The report that the British fleet would renter the Black Sea, in order to promote the fulfilment of the treaty of Paris, is corroborated this morning by the following telegraphic message front Constantinople published by the Morning Post. "Constantinople, 1st August.—The squadron cf Admiral Houston Stewart has sailed for the Black Sea, and will remain there until Russia, which still retains possession of Kars and the Isle of Serpents, shall have fulfilled the stipulations of the treaty of peace."

The Paris correspondent of the same journal reports that "the British squadron has positively received orders to enter the Black Sea. The Governments of France and England are waiting important despatches from St. Petersburg."

The latest report, however, is, that the Russians have evacuated the island and that the Turks arc in possession.

The Moniteur of yesterday announces that Count Walewski has resumed his functions as Minister of Foreign Affairs, which had been filled during his absence by M. Baroche ad interim.

The title of Marshal Pelissier, it is said, will be simply Duke Pelissier, like Duke Pasquier and Bac Decazes—or "Due tout court," according to the popular slang. The. Marshal entered Paris on Thursday with much ceremony.

The Queen of Spain has been distributing " honours " to the conquerors of her Cortes and people.

"Generals Echague and Garcia have been named Grand Crosses of Spanish military orders. Generals Zapatero, Marchessi, Armor°, Macrohon, and Mantillan, are promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Generals." General Ros de Olano [a friend of Narvacz] has "resumed the general direction or the Infantry."

By the Fulton, which reached Southampton yesterday, we have advises from New York to the 26th July. In the course of the discussion in the House of Representatives on the Army Appropriation Bill, Mr. Barbour, of Indiana, moved to amend the clause making provision for the pay of the army by adding a disapproval of the code of alleged laws of Kansas, and the manner in which they were enforced ; expressly declaring that, unless they should be confirmed by Congress, no part of the Federal forces should be employed for their enforcement, nor should any citizens of Kansas be compelled to aid as a posse commitatus of anyofficer acting as marshal or sheriff in that Territory. After a debate in which the Kansas troubles were fully discussed, a motion to further amend, by declaring that the laws of Kansas were null and void, was agreed to by a majority of 57 to 56. The first proposition as amended was then carried by 72 to 57 votes.

The English Agricultural dinners have begun. One of the first was that of the Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Association, held this week at Wigan ; whereat Mr. Cardwell discoursed on the progress of Free-trade, the substitution of machinery for human labour, and the benefits of agricultural statistics.

The simple meaning of the two long names "Agricultural Statistics" is the wide diffiusion of knowledge as to which the tenant-farmer was the person particularly and specially concerned. It was his interest to know at the close of the harvest what was its true state, in order that he might consider whether he ought to carry his newly-garnered crop to the first market, or whether, from a right appreciation of the circumstances of the time, he should reserve its sale for a more favourable period. The merchants could obtain that knowledge. For that purpose the corn-merchants of Liverpool had most elaborate arrangements, always making journeys through the country for the purpose of ascertaining first the prospects and then the state of the harvest. The tenant-farmer had no such agency. There were two opinions as to the way in which these agricultural statistics should be obtained—whether by a compulsory enactment, or by the voluntary aid of the tenant-farmer. It was his privilege during the short time he held office to cooperate with the tenant-farmers in a voluntary arrangement for the purpose of obtaining statistical information ; and the result of that experiment, with regard to the shrewd, intelligent, and far-seeing tenantfarmers of Scotland, was that, with an exception so small that it ought not to be called au exception, and he ought to speak of it without exception, there was, from one end of Scotland to the other, universal and unmixed success. By a voluntary cooperation of the tenant-farmers, they knew the whole acreage of ground under every kind of crop, and the state of the crops prior to harvest ; and at an early period after the harvest had been gathered in, an estimate was formed and published by the authority of Government, which by experience had been found to be reliable in regard to the quality and value of the crops.

The Highland Agricultural Association have held their annual show this week at Inverness. The exhibition of implements, which was opened on Wednesday, was a great improvement over previous shows. The cattle and sheep exhibited were above the average in quantity and. , quality.

The sections of the British Association were yesterday engaged in hearing papers from eminent contributors. In the Geological section, Professor Owen read two papers ; one of which was on a new species of anoplotherioid mammal from the upper eocene of Ilerdwell, Hants, with remarks on the generm dichobune, xiphodon, and microtherium ; and second, on the seelidotherium leptocephalum, a megatherioi& quadruped, from South America. The principal point was the extra

ordinary breadth of the femur. He also showed a drawing of the skull, and remarked the analogy of it to those of the megatherium and the-anteater. The large size of the lachrymal bone and fossre, and also of a channel leading into the mouth, together with the large aperture for -the passage of the lingual nerve, show the existence of a large tongue.

In the section of Geography and Ethnology, Dr. Macpherson, Inspector-General of Hospitals attached to the Turkish Contingent, read a paper describing his researches at Kutch.

In the section of Economic Science and Statistics, Mr. Denson read a , paper on the statistics of the cotton trade ; from which he deduced the following conclusion " That hence in the present state of the -commercial relations of the two

• countries, the cotton-planters of the United States are interested to the extent of two-thirds at least of their entire exportable produce in the maintenance of the cotton manufacture of the United Kingdom ; and that reciprocally the cotton-manufacturers of the United Kingdom, and through them the entire population of the kingdom, are interested to the extent of more than four-fifths of the raw material of that manufacture, in the existing arrangements for maintaining the cotton culture of the United States."

There will be a public installation at St. Patrick's Cathedral in the course of the present month, but the precise day is not yet decided upon. It is stated by Saunders's Xetesletter that the new knights will probablybe the Marquis of Londonderry, the Earl of Granard, and the Earl of Shrewsbury.—Times Dublin Correspondent.

William Dove was to be executed today at noon. Great efforts have been made to save him from the hangman. He was finally told on Thursday that he would be hanged, and he appeared quite unmoved and unconcerned, remarking that he was not at all surprised. at Sir George Grey's decision. He conversed with the Governor very freely about it, and observed that he was sorry his friends should have given themselves such an amount of unnecessary trouble on his behalf. He added, "it is just what I have expected for the last few days. I never looked for anything but an unfavourable reply from him." It is stated that he has confessed his crime and admitted the justice of his doom ; and that he is " deeply penitent."