The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-09-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

BALLOON EXCURSION OF TWELVE HOURS,  O'CONNELL'S CHARACTER, BY GRATTAV.  Examine their leader, Mr. O'Connell. He assumes a right. to direct the catholics of Ireland; he advises, he harangues, and he excites; he dues not attempt to allay the passions of a warm and mercurial people. Full of inflammatory matter, his declamations breathed everything but harmony,—venting against Great Britain the most disgusting calumny, falsehood, and nonsense, equalled only by its excessive impudence —describing Great Britain as the most stupid, the most dishonest, and the most besotted nation that ever existed! That Ireland could nut confide in the ,promises of England, &C. Without discrimination he pronounced Protestants "bigots." When he enumerated the grievances of the catholic body, he omitted the greatest grievance—him;elf! A man who could make the speeches that he has made, utter the sentiments that be has uttered, abuse the characters that he has abused, and praise the characters that he has praised, violate the promises that lie has violated, propose such votes of thanks, and such votes of censure, shows that he has little regard for private honour or public character; that he does not comprehend the spirit of liberty, and is not fitted to receive it. Ile betrays such a scattered anderstandieg and barbaric mind, that if be got liberty he would lose it; almost unsuited for the British constitution, and almost ignorant of the bonds of civil society, of such a mould and such a disposition as to be incapable of accomplishing any rational object. His declamations to the lower orders are full of extravagance, unreality, and ambiguity; he sets afloat the bad passions of the people, makes them restless in disposition, and impotent in action; he leaves a vacuum in the meaning of his harangue, to be tilled by the heated imaginations of a warm-hearted and sensible people. He is well aware that it is the part of a bad Man to make use of a grievance as an instrument of power, and render it the- means of discontent, without a single honest attempt at redress. He knows, or at least ought to know, that this conduct is of such a nature as must also tend to confirm bad ministers and strengthen stern authority; it seduces people into unmeant mischief, and after exciting them to folly, it abandons them through fear; it may lead them to rise against au exciseman or a tithe-man, to burn a hay-stack, or murder a farmer, but will never teach them to redress a grievance, or to bring an offending minister to the scaffold. This leader in spirit is poor: his courage is of a hesitating quality. His political imprudence is prodigious; his martial prudence prodigious also. In debate he is more than a hero—in every sentence there is a challenge. In the field he is a diplomatist. He was insulted and did not fight; again insulted, he was goaded to the "round, where his antagonist (Roderigo) fell; be then offered an insult, was noticed by the condescending spirit of an imprudent minister, was challenged, travelled -400 miles (incog.), was arrested through an unforeseen accident, and did not go to the ground, being prevented by unavoidable necessity. His speaking is extravagant diction, a vulgar boast, a swaggering sentence, affected bombast, and ludicrous composition; his liberty is not liberal, his politics are not reason, his reading. is not learning, his learning is not knowletrge, his rhetoric is a gaudy hyperbole, garnished with faded flowers, such as a drabbled girl would pick up in Covent-garden, stuck on with the taste of a kitchenmaid. He makes politics, a trade to serve his desperate views and interested purposes. This man can bring about nothing good; in abortions he is most fertile; the womb of his mind is of such sinful mould that it can never produce anything that is not deformed; he never succeeded in any project, except the loss of your question ; he barks and barks, and even when the filthy slaver has exhausted its poison, and retires to its kennel, there still barks and howls within unseen. No administration would injure their reputation by advanciag such a character, Stc.  NEW YORK pAPERO.  ( From the Journal of Commerce, August 28th.)  Pam INstiax Ncit. —The Association of Fire Insurance Companies have lately held several meetings to consider the new /44/it which has been shed upon the condition of their affairs, and 41ave adopted sundry new regulations, which, if permitted. to take effect, will prove highly injurious to the owners of real estate, and, in fact, to all our citizens. The following is a copy of a new tariff of rates of insurance:—