OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. [From the New-York World, July 16th.] The grand demonstration at Union Square, yesterday afternoon, was a gathering in every way worthy of the great cause that had called it forth. An hour previous to the time named for the meeting:, the Park was crowded with men and women anxious to secure eligible positions, where they could sit in the shade and listen to the music for the Union. From the hotels and housetops, and from the churches, the stars and stripes were displayed with the utmost profusion. The windows looking from the residences upon all sides of the Square were thrown up, and the balconies fronting them filled with ladies and children, whose presence served greatly to add to the animation of the scene below. Broadway and the other thoroughfares leading to the Square were thronged with the multitudes who had closed their stores and workshops to attend the meeting. Every class and trade were represented. The wealthy millionaire, who had left the luxuries of a well-filled table and dashed up in a splendid equipage, had come prepared to counsel with the hard-fisted laborer who had left mattock and spade, crow-bar and barrow, to devise means for maintaining the Union ; and the voices of both were unanimous that " it must and shall be preserved." The stands were ranged in numerical order, beginning with No. 1, at the monument, passing round the Square in a north-westerly direction, and terminating with No. 5. They were substantial structures, and beautifully draped witli bunting, the stars and stripes being conspicuous over all. Around these the crowd began to assemble at half-past three o'clock ; and from that moment the numbers increased until the hour of adjournment. The utmost enthusiasm prevailed upon all sides. Bands of music were playing at intervals, and Anthon's Light Battery boomed forth a welcome to the coming thousands who were marshaling from town and country in a common cause. As the gathering grew more dense, the cars on the Fourth Avenue Railroad ceased running it being impossible for them to get through. The Broadway stages ran off their line also, the entire space occupied by the Square being given up unreservedly to the purposes of the meeting. Prominent in the assemblage were the veterans of the war of 1812, in uniform, their swords buckled on as if ready for another contest, and their voices urging the young men everywhere to enlist. At four o'clock the workingmen from the lower wards came up en masse, and shortly afterward the ''jackets of blue " from the Navy Yard made their appearance ; also the ship-carpenters at work on the Union gun-boats, the workmen from ' Singer's sewing-machine manufactory, and those employed by Henry Brewster & Co. ; these latter assisting to work the Anthon Battery. The New England Soldiers' Relief Association had two huge wagons, one drawn by eight horses and the other by four horses, covered with flags, both laden with patriotic hearts, anxious with the rest to help on the great cause of crushing the rebellion. It was a mass meeting in every sense of the word. The presence of 100,000 men stamped it as earnest, and likely to be productive of untold results. It was a mass meetin" 1 in point of numbers, of wealth, of class, of respectability, arid, above all of loyalty and devotion to the grand old Union. Even the boys in the
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