Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-07 00:00:00

" three .kneelings and itine_kno-eks," woul

petted ; " but,'r said the Judge,
three knocks will do for a friendly power
replied that, while he entertained the e

for his Majesty,, and in that only f

dent himself had expressed in the letter of which he was
the bearer, he wished to declare, in the plainest terms,that
highly as he would regard an audier

', and important

as it under-the present circumstances, still
he had never asked it, and the treaty said nothing about
it, but he would not kneel when he came 'before the
throne. He could only salute his Majesty as he did the
Sovereigns of all other nations when they saw them;
he knelt only as an act of worship before God, and

would never do so before any man. They were subjects
of the Emperor, and must obey his ritual ; but he repre-
sented a nation whose dignity he could not compromise
by such a compliance ; and, furthermore, true respect
must always proceed from the heart, and, if the out-

ward ceremony was not voluntary, it

hypocrisy

He would bovi very low, and even nine times,

would add to the solemnity in their view ; or he would
stand uncovered during the whole audience, while the
Emperor sat. More than this he would never willing-
ly perform; while this form of salutation exhibited all
the respect he felt towards the President, which they
must acknowledge was quite as great as he could feel
towards the Emperor of China. _ _ _

The Commiisioners answered that they could not
show respect —to their Sovereign otherwise than by
kneeling, for anything short of that was absolutely
nothing in their estimation, and would be deemed so by

the Emperor. " You are a plenipotentiary," said
Hwashana, turning to Mr. Ward, " and certainly have
full powers to do such an act." "I am not invested
with powers sufficient to enable me to change the laws
and usages of my country, and cannot do anything to
deo-rade it," was Mr. Ward's reply.
The interview was then broken off, and it ws _
mated to the Americans that the treaty would be ex-
ehanged at Pei-tsang. This was accordingly done, and
an English prisoner named John Powell given up.
This man was an ordinary seaman on board of the
Highflyer, and who, with a sapper of the name of
Thomas M'Queen, had been' captured on the 25th-June;
fearing for his life he had proclaimed himself to be an
American. The Chinese informed Mr. Ward of this,
and intimated their realiness to give him up as an
American if he would demand him. This, however,
the latter could not do, as he had been taken fighting
under the flag of another nation. Anxious, however,
to serve the poor fellow, he intimated to them that it
would be a great personal favour if they. would :turn
him over, an as such it was done. He is now on
board of the Powhattan. Of the sapper nothing more
is known than that he was wounded in the arm, was
doing well, and is still a prisoner. The Chinese seemed
generally anxious to know what the English would do
next year

CAPTAIN M'CLINTOCK, R.N. AT DUNDALK.—A
meeting of the inhabitants of Dundalk and its vicinity
took place on Nionday, in the grand jury-room of the
Court-house, in order to present a testimonial to the dis-
tinguished discoverer of the relics of the Franklin ex-

pedition. The testimonial consisted of a massive silver
salver, and a beautifully designed claret jug of the same
material. On both articles were engraved the crest of
the li'Clintock family, and also the corporate arms of
the town of Dundalk, and the following inscription:—
"This salver and accompanying claret jug were pi esented
to T..LeopoldlU‘Clintock, Esq., captain R.N., late com-
mander of the Fox, by his fellow-townsmen, the inhabi-
tants of Dundalk and its vicinity, in testimony of his
gallantry, zeal, and perseverance, while in command of
the ,expedition to discover tidings of the late lamented
Sir John Franklin and companions, and of its success-
ful issue." Captain M'Clintock was warmly greeted by
the assemblage, which constituted a large portion of the
rank and wealth of the town and neighbourhood.

MR. FAIRnAIRE STEAM EXPER;MENTS.—ME. Wm.
Fairbairn, aided by his mathematical friend, Mr. Thos.
Tate, has once more been performing experiments
which scientific men will gladly welcome. It has long
been suspected—or rather, it has long been placed
beyond suspicion—that the law put forward by Dalton
and. Gay-Lussac, however sound as applied ,to ordinary
gaseous bodies, is not correctly applicable to steam,
or, indeed, to any condensable vapours whatever,
although it has formed the basis of all our standard
writings on the subject. Dr. Joule and Professor
W. Thomson were first led, some time since, •to
notice the failure of the law in this respect, owing
to discrepancies which they discovered in applying
what is called the dynamical theory of heat to Carrot's
law, and later Professor Rankine has one so far as to
put forth new formula favouring the view of Joule and
Thomson, and opposing that of Dalton and Gay-Lussac.
With the question in this condition, Mr. Fairbairn has
turned his attention to it, and very properly decided upon
appealing to experiment for evidence of the truth. of the
matter. Mr. Fairbairn and Mr. Tate express the density
of the steam by means of numbers representing how
many times the water composing it has been expanded,
and obtain some very remarkable departures from the
results given by the. old formula. For example, ,where
the latter gave 1,005 fora temperature of 244 deg. the cape-
rimentgives 896 only; for a temperature of 245 deg. the
formula gave 969, the experiment 890; for 257 deg. the
numbers were 790 and 651 ; for 262 deg., 740 ancf 680 ,
for 268 deg., 680 and 633 ; for 270 deg. 660 and 604;
and for 283 deg., 540 and•49o. These determinations, at
pressures varying from 10 lbs. to 50 lbs. above the at-
mosphere, are, as Mr. Fairbairn M,,-S, not accurate re-
ductions from the experimental results, but Only approxi-
mations. They uniformly show, however, a decided
deviation from the law for perfect gases, and in the
direction anticipated by Professor, Thomson, the density
being. uniformly greater than that indicated by the for-
mula., Mr. Fairbairn hopes by the time of the next
meeting of the British Association, with the assistance
of his friend Mr. Tate, to be enabled to lay before the
which will fully determine the

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