The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-19 00:00:00

GREAT ORANGE DEMONSTRATION IN
MIDEAST

The meeting of Protestante of all denominations
came off on Wednesday in the Botanic Gardens, Belfast.
The object of the meeting was "to give public expression
to their sentiments in relation to the systematic partiality
and injustice with which the lain have for some time put
been administered in this kingdom, in the rigorous enforce-
ment of several enactments against proteitants, whilst un-
disguised violations of them by Roman catholic. are suffered
with impunity ; and to insist that even.handed justice shall
be administered to all classes of her Majesty's subjects." In
the course of the day eight to ten thousand persons came
to tows by the Ulster Railway alone. A body of 1,500
persons walked in from Lisburn. The other railways also
contributed from the district, within their range. A depu-
tation attended from Scotland. The total number present
was estimated at 70,000. The attendance was of a most re-
spectable character, very much superior to that which
constitutes the bulk of popular demonstrations of similar
megnitode in other parts of Ireland. Nothing whatever
occurred during the day to interrupt the harmony of the
meeting or of the town in the slightest degree; and the
weather was propitiously fins.

Tex Loer Cow.—A farmer residingg near Durbam
took two cows to dispose of at the fair held in that city on
Friday last. He succeeded is obtaining 111. for the animals,
and towards evening he proceeded homeward. On goiog app
the North-road he was scouted by a respectably
young man, who asked him if he had met a stray cow,
which he (the stranger) unfortunately had lost. Our un-
sophisticated friend, considering that he made such as
excellent bargain for his horned quadruped, and had
the seventeen sovereigns safe in his pocket, doubt-
less sympathised with the bereaved stranger, but
was coostrairied to reply in the negative. The distressed
young man upon this gave audible manifestations of mental
anguish at his loss, but with a determined effort he suc-
ceeded in suppressing his emotion, and philosophically re-
marked that it was a " bad job," but he supposed he must
make the "best" of it. He then tenderly isquired of
the old gentleman in which direction he was going ; and
on receiving a reply, was delighted to hear that the road in
question was exactly the one which led to his maternal
domicile, and he should be happy to accompany Mr. Ver-
dant homewards. In the warmth of his heart, however, in
having met with such a sympathising friend, the afflicted
one proposed that they should have a drop together before
setting out, and the worthy farmer being nothing loth,
the twain at once adjourned to a neighbouring hostelry.
Here the generous stranger regaled his new-found friend
with copious libations of mine host's best, sad whilst so
engaged another respectable-looking individual accidentally
came into the room. After some conversation on various
topics, gentleman No. 3 incidentally remarked, " would
they like to see • trick with cards ?" The young man who
had lest the cow was much shocked at this proposition, as
should his respectable " parient" at home asoestain that
be had indulged in anything of the kind be was sure she
would never pardon the indiscretion. His tender scruples.
however, at length were overcome, and " dame Fortune"
so far favoured him that money was transferred from the
pockets of the stranger to his own with such rapidity that
the value of the cow promised at once to be quadrupled.
Our fuser by this time began to have some qualms of con-
scieoos as to the rectitude of not eodeavounog to appro-
priate to Mined( some of the proceeds of this apparently
inexhaustible mine of wealth, and he was in consequence
easily induced to participate in the game. Remised to be •
cautious, the first time he only put on 41.; when to! from
moms unaccountable caprice of the cards both he and his •
first friend lost their money. The operation was repeated
with varying degrees of success, but somehow or other the
victim ultimately found himself, as might be expected,
minus the whole 171. The two friends, of amine, soon
found pretexts to decamp. The polio* were put on the
alert, but they managed to pt clear off. The hero of this
oft-told story washy this time a " udder but • wiser mac."
sad the lest oar informant beard of him was. that as no.
sympathising wag, as the poor man was preparing to weed
his melancholy way homewards, advised him, if he should
be so fortunate u to fall in with it. to compensate himself
by appropriating " the lost cow !"—Nnerastk Chronicle.

Last evening a public meeting was held at the
Whittingtoe Club, to express sympathy with Garibaldi and
to protest spend the Preach occupation of Roma. There
were not fewer the. 500 persons present.
Mr. NICHOLLY, of O:ford•stroet, was called to the chair,
and after a few preliminary remarks observed that it was
with great pleasure, mingled with great regret, that they
met there that evening--pleasure at the unanimous burst of
feeling which the numerous usemblage before him iodi-
nated ; regret on account of the position in which the hero
of one hundred fights was at present placed. (leer, hear.)
Garibaldi !—(the mention of the name WE/ received with
repeated rounds of applause accompanied with a few hiss)
—Garibaldi every trite Englishman—every lover of his

country, approved of all that be had done. (Cheers.)
Garibaldi had attempted to do that which sooner or later
mar yet be done to make Rome the capital of Italy.
(Cheers.) They would not allude to Veer at pre-
seat—Garibaldi and Ron., were alone the subjects for
dimension that evening. (Hear, hear.) If Garibaldi bad
beet. successful they would have gloried in that meows,
as they had done when he rescued Sicily and Merges from
the tyranny of the Bourbon, sad when only a few ErHeit-
man were found craven enough to stigmatic him as • rrk
adventurer. Bat if be had not been rash, what would
have bre the conditioa of Italy now (Hear, hear.) The
iwwwwk, ha ens loopy to eay, wee Has Ant of a swiss of
meetings, all of which, he had so doubt, would be 'quay
eethulastic. He congratulated the country, and be ocm-
(adulated the working men especially, that they had come
forward so nobly to express their sympathy, and he mold
wore them that the expression of their ardent and heart
feeling would conmenare Garibaldi for the coldness
of the whole host at the aristocracy. • (Hier,
hear.) He was glad that through their Larne
mentality ea English regime bad been sent oat
to see that Garibaldi was properly treated, and be was
delighted at the almost spootaneous expression of sympathy
on the part of Lord Palmenitou, who, the moment he heard
that the English medical man had gone out, telegraphed to
the government of Turin to afford him every facility to
attend the invalid. (Cheers.)
M. WABILUIGTTON W ass submitted the following !WOW-
iioll :—" That this meeting desires to exposes its deep per-
sonal sympathy with General Garibaldi is his misfortune,
and to convey to the illustrious prisoner of Spars • hope
that when the state of his health permite he will honour the
metropolis of Great Britain with a visit ; and to retire him ,
that in this free country he will receive from all chases the
hospitality to which his exalted character entitle, him."
A telegram received that morning from Mr. Peter Alfred
Taylor, the member for Leicenter, who was at flperia, an-
nounced
that Mr. Partridge, the surgeon, repotted as to the '
wound of Garibaldi that the rifle ball had not mitered, bat '
struck the outside bone of the ankle—adding that there was
no inflammation, sad that the healing prorate wee going oa
favourably. Mr. W ills eloquently defended Garibaldi from '
the insinuations made spinet him in some quarters that he i
was a mere adventurer and disturber of order, observing
that his adventurous career had never been stained with
crime, nor had he ever adventured to abuse public confidence
and win a rause by perjury and bloodshed like the imperial
tyrant who was the main author of his present sufferinp.
It Garibaldi had disturbed order, it was because that order
was oppression. Garibaldi had done more than Cromwell
or Wsthington, and had given liberty to more minims of men
than eitberof them. Hews, the victim of intrigue, but it was
not ll'e intrigue of Marini, as some had aeserted,for no man I
wee less an intriguer than Marini. The intriguing to which
Garibaldi had suocumbed was that of the imperial plotter
and of Victor Emmanuel, who, by his conduct in this matter,
had rendered kingship contemptible, and the intriguing of
Barer. - I

Mr. BIADLAGH seconded the resolution in a very violent
denouncing the Emperor of the French, the King
1:11=1e' ,Bettamai, the Pope, and the priesthood. Hs re-
joined to say that the men of France were beginning to
speak, and the tyrant of the Tuileries was beginning to
quake.
Mr. W. AUSTIN supported the proposition. Hs attri-
buted all the difficulties of Italy, the war with Bemis, and
all the difficulties and complications of our foreign policy,
to secret diplomacy, which prevented the voice of the Eng-
lish people being heard, and having its duo weight on the
continent. _ . _ . _ _ _

The lutioa wee carried unonimotioly, sod with load
oheen

—The CILAIRILAN having aneonaced that a oollection would
be made at the doors to meet the expenses,
Mr. Ileums moved, ",That this meeting considers the
siege and occupation of Rome 13 years ago was an inter-
national outrage, for which the only excuses pat forward
were false pretence—(cheers)—that many solemn pledges
for the evacuation of the Eternal City have since been mode
by the government of Louie Napoleon and scandalously
broken—(hear, hear)—that while Rome is ruled, as at pre-
sent, by a corrupt priestly administration, resting for sup-
port aeons material force lent for that purpose by a foreign
despotism, Italian unity is Impossible, the thought and
energies of the Italian people are cramped and limited, and
the peace of Europe is constantly endangered." (Obsess.)
In protesting against the French occupation of Rome they
were upholding the principle of non-intervention, sad draw-
ing attention to the treachery which had marked the that
occupation of Rome by the k reach army, and all the sober
quentcircumatimoce which had attended its continuance. Be
argued that it was one of the most flagrant iesgaoss at
forced and unjustiable intervention on mooed. But if that I
intervention was a degrees to Fracoe, it was a shame to
England ; for England might have prevented it at the first,
or put an end to it at any moment by a simple but decided
expression of opinion on the part of the British government.
Mr. BEAL seconded the resolution, remarking that if the
people insisted upon our prominent entering upon strong I
and earnest negotiations with the French Emperor
to put au end to the occupation of Rome, and
made their doing so the condition of support at
the next general election, the French troops would ha at
once withdrawn. He held that the occupation of Rome by
the French was a continued menses to the peace of Europe,
and on that ground it was the direct interest of England
and all the other powers to put an sod to it. Hs acknow-
ledged the services of the Dail, NMI. the Morning ddver.
liar, and a portion of the cheap press, but condemned the
vacillation of the Times, which one day maid sad
another denounced Garibaldi as a madman and an adven-
turer. He also complained of the absence of the metropo-
litan members from the meeting, and recommended the
electors to make this question the question with their re-
presentatives to the exclusion of all others.
Tnis resolution was also earned unanimously.
Oa the motion of Mr. TAYLOR, seconded by Mr. WAITS,
secretary to the Garibaldi fund, it was then resolved
" That a petition be drawn up by the committee, under
whose auspices this meeting has been convened, and skald '
by the chairman on its behalf, praying that her Majesty's
principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs will cell
upon the Emperor of the French to redeem his frequent
promises to that effect, by forthwith evacuating Rome.*
Mr. TAYLOR added that the Lord Ma or bad agreed to
call a meeting on the subject at Guildhall, and to preside
over it, provided a requisition were preempted to him signed
by a sufficient number of the Maxim of London.
The ueual compliment to the chairman concluded the pro-
ceedings.

DUBLIN.

A highly influential meeting, convened by pri.
vate circular, was held ou Wednesday, when the following
petition was unanimously adopted :
" TO THE RIGHT SON. EARL RUSSELL. &C.
" The petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of Ireland,
" Humbly showeth, —That your petitioners have, in
common with the rest of civilised Europe, regarded with the
deepest attention and 0000ern, for some years past, the post.
tion of Italy, its prospects and interest., both religious and
political. which they believe to be inseparable, holding as they
do that all the events and issues is the world's history are
directed, in the providence of God, to the one ead—the Ko-
reas and prosperity of the rebgiou of Christ, which aloes
makes men free indeed. That your petitioners, actuated
by this feeling, and sympathising with the present circum-
stance of the people of Italy, most strongly deprecate the
essitioned occupation of that country by the troops of
the Emperor of the French. Your petitioners humbly con-
ceive that, io expressing their judgment in this matter,
they are justified in drawing such conclusloos ma they most
needs arrive at were the case their own ; foreip interval-
Um, and that by an armed force, appearing of aecessity to
your petitioners, if Dot an altogether unprecedented, at lent
rs this stage of the world's civileation, a roost umonstitutiocal
tyranny—the least freedom, or independence of thought,
action, or enterprise being wholly out of the quorum, is the
presence, and under the pressure of, an overwhelmirg and
irresistible physical restraint. Your petitioners cannot but
think that the present position of Italy preseots a most ex-
ceptional and unwarrantable anomaly, in the sow uni var.
many reeogoised method and object of national government.
And your petitioners feel that they should little deserve- -on
the contrary should justly be held as unworthy of the rich
and inestimable blearing' and privileges secured to them under
theirown constitution, if they did sot desire, and by ill means
in their power endeavour to secure for others, what in God's
gracious and merciful providence they have been permitted to
enjoy themselves. Your petitioners, thus deeply impressed
with feelings which they have thus concisely endeavoured to
convey, humbly and respectfully implore through your lent-
ship of her Majesty's executive to interpose sod intercede
with the Emperor of the French for the immediate with-
drawal of the French troops from Rome. Your petitioners
also would earnestly entreat your lordship to use, as your
lordship may deem advisable, any influence at your com-
mand in the proper quarter, to provide that no detriment
may moue to General Garibaldi and his followers, from the