Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1873-08-23 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SEVENTY-FIFTH DAY. —Moxhay. There could be no fewer than three thousand persons gathered together to see the Claimant come down to court at noon tp-day, and no inconsiderable section cheered him as he passed along the open way between their ranks kept clear by the policemen on duty. It was clear from the course pursued in the speech for the defence that there was no hope of concluding that day, nor on the morrow, but it was now almost a certainty that the speech will finish by one o'clock on Wednesday, turd that witnesses will be called in the afternoon of that day. Beyond a suggestion which some wise firm outside had sent to I the court that the Claimant should be mesmerised and interrogated while in that condition there was nothing ont of the ordinary ran, unless certain illustrations of the speech are excepted. Such were Dr. Johnson's opinions on the importance of truth; the course Dr. Senealy would take if a person held a pistol to his head and demanded to know whether another person whom the demander intended to murder had gone to left or right; and the relative value of the evidence of men and women in their recollection of faces and events long since past, and all of which served to enliven prosy criticisms on the evidence of the Orton witnesses.  LEIGE, Wednesday  - I special feature in the Exhibition in 'the Mechanical Museum, is the display by various English and Belgian firms of splendid photographs of their works and some of their more remarkable productions. Among them may be mentioned in particular Jelin Cockerill and Co., of Leering, who exhibit, among other photographs, a remarkably interesting one of a revolving turret, which they have made for the fortification of Antwerp. Messrs Head, Wrightson, and Company, of Stockton, are also strong in the way of photographs, and also show an ingenious hydralzone apparatus, which substitutes the opening of a valve for the laborious lowering and raising by a winch. This apparatus is being rapidly applied to a large number of furnaces in England, Scotland, Wales, and the Continent. Another object especially demanding attention is the three-rolling mill of MM. Gillon and Dyardine, of Liege. The specialty of this mill consists in the f tot, thaw the middle roll moves down, and in so doing moves a long lever table with transverse bars on one side of the machine down and up. A plate or rail is by means of this kept continually passing through the rollers without the slightest loss of time or power. The subject of utilising the slag from blast furnace., which necessarily occupying a good deal of attention, is illustrated by specimen's of bricks,!made from the disintegrated sag; and models showing the process by which the results is accomplished, are exhibited by Captain Bodine, on the one hand, and by Wood of Middlesbrough on the other. • This morning's business was cemmenoed iu the:balt of the Society Emulation. Mr i. L. Bell, the president took the chair, and explained that the proceedings would of necessity be conducted indifferently in English or French, M. Malherbo, a distinguished geologist, read a paper on the geology of Iselguim. Daring the course of the proceedings of this meet. lug that President introduced Mr Raymond, President of the Association of Mechanical Engineers of the United States, who was the bearer of an invitation for this association to hold their next annual !wetlug in Amelicu. Mr Raymond most eloquently and most enthusiastically pointed out the reasons whin might influence the institution in aceapting the invitation, and assured the members of the hearty welcome they would receive.