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Show The N. Y. "Tribune's" Review ol" lieeclier'N Cruss-xuiuiuu-Xiou. New Yoik, 13. The Tribune tomorrow to-morrow wilJ allude to Beecher's cross-examination, cross-examination, begun to-day, as follows. fol-lows. Tne cress-examination by Fulierton took a wide range, and for first two hours was rather rambling and confusing to the audience, if not to the witness. His first determined erlbrt was an elaborate attempt to draw Beecher into an unqualified condemnation ol 'Til ton's teaching a editor of the Independent, and an admission ad-mission that knowing Tilton denied the divinity of Christ, and was otherwise other-wise loose in his views on orthodox doctrine, aLd hat! indeed foreshadowed his views on marriage and divorce, witness held him as unfit to be the head of a paper. This wasi done with the intention, subsequently subsequent-ly developed, of asking Beecher how-be how-be had come to place and sustain such a person at the head of a paper ol which he was himself the nominal and responsible editor, but Beecher evaded the point by saying that he looked apon Tilton as a crude mind passing through a state natural to all young, reflective natures, when traditional tra-ditional religious beliefs give way to personal beliefs. Pie did not think Til ion was an unfit person to conduct such a paper as the Independent which he desciibed in a dry, humorous way as a secular and in some sense aieligi-ous aieligi-ous paper. Mr. Fullerton then tried to commit Beecher to a positive statement state-ment as to when in '71 Mrs. Beecher lelt Brooklyn for the south. He could fix it no more definitely than eany in me year, ine purpose of this was not seen until later in the day, when Fullerton rend a letter from Beecher, January 25, 1371, to Mrs. Morse, in which he spokfl of Mrs. Beecher and himself still thinking a quiet course the wisest. The idea of Fullerton was doubtless to show-it was a false pretense pre-tense that Mrs. Beecher was a party tc the communication, but it was not shown that Mrs. Beecher had left Brooklyn for thu south at this time. Hides and waUs with Mrs. Tilton, visits at her house, the mode of salutation salu-tation between the minister and parishioner, par-ishioner, and many minor matters of like import were made the subject of tediously minute enquiries. Fullerton then pierced the centre ol the case. He asked Beecher at once to tell the incident ot Bessie Turner's vi.-it to him, his conference i witi i Mrs. Til'.ou and his advice to her to separate from tier husband, the visit of Bowen, December 26, 1S70, the threatening letter of Tilton and tho interview with Moulton, which led up to the scene of December oO, 1670. and the final accusation by Til- ; ton. Beecher gave more in detail than he had doi.e before and with fewer interruptions. The descriptions descrip-tions dillered in no material sense ' from the direc t slimony, but were no', of the same form of construction or similarity in language. '' The T. Hunt- says it is probable that 1 no objection will tie made to the reception re-ception of Mrs. Til on's testimony i which ;ho defence will probably ofler next week. Morris, ot counsel for I Tilton, state 1 yesterday ,that the piaintifl's counsel wouii not object to ' ihe reception of her testimony, and ' Judge Neiison has already indicated h;s willingness to admit it if both siei agree. Beecher's examination ! wi;l eeriain'y cle-e this week, ifnot: on Thursday, and either Cleveland or Mrs. 'I ikon will then be placed on the stand. |