The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1854-01-03 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MODERN PATRIOTISM.—When an Hungarian exile,_ newly escaped from the gaols and gibbets of Austria, lands on English ground, he is received with profuse and. enthusiastic sympathy. Town councils entertain and listen to him ; ins speeches fill the papers ; and we feel a. glow of generous exultation as we reflect that Great Britain is the home of liberty, and that here at least the outcast has reached a refuge where tyranny is detested and oppression practically unknown. Singularly enough, the result is precisely the same when a run-away Irish convict sets foot in New York. There is the same outburst of generous feeling ; the speeches, though flavoured with an extra dash of extravagance, are much in the same strain ; and the ovations prepared for John ➢litchell by the American municipalities bear a sufficiently close resemblance to those accorded to Louis Kossuth at Southampton, Birmingham, and London. The government from whose hands these gentlemen have escaped—a pretty good proof in itself that those hands were not laid one them very heavily—is in their opinion and in that of their  entertainers not a government at all, but " a band of knotted tyrants and enemies of the human race," " cruel_ and rapacious," " a gang of conspirators, robbers, an& murderers." They curse its charity and abhor its blasphemy." Their hearers sympathise and applaud. la it the Government of Austria they are talking of ? No, the Government of England. Stuff ! you ejaculate, throwing down your paper with a contempt in which yom would be ashamed to allow that there was any particle of anger. Stuff indeed—but not so considered at New York. It is the settled conviction of three-fourths of Europe that O'Connell was the purest patriot and the greatest man of his day. We take another and a juster measure of him ; but numbers are against us, and the history of the age will not be written exclusively by English pens. Shoul(L it not temper slightly the peremptory judgments we forni of other nations, to find that lies pass for truth, and a  mischievous incendiary is honoured as a hero and a martyr, at so short a distance from Temple-bar, and among an. English-speaking people, familiar with Engli4h literature and English news ?—Guardian. PURIFICATION or TnE Ana.—lt is known that sulphur— ous acid, or the fumes of burning sulphur, constitute art excellent disinfectant in typhus fever ; and such " hydras dire" as sulphuretted and phosphuretted hydrogen muss: be completely neutralizable by these fumes, the oxygen of the one uniting with the hydrogen of the other, an& utterly destroying them. _ For this reason we strongly  recommend frequent fumigations of dwellings, area,, court-yards, and gardens, simply with the fumes of burn— ing sulphur, as a very cheap as well as assuredly effectual disinfectant, of all such noxious miasmata, at least, as are likely to infest the precincts of human dwellings. Sul— phurous acid fumes will hang in the air for a long time-, and meet the enemy there face to face in deadly strife, without anything particularly disagreeable to the nostrilEr, except when held inadvertently above the chafing-dish or other utensil in which the sulphur is burning, and ins_ which, by the way, it may be readily kept burning, evert in the coldest weather, by help of a red-hot poker. .ll* cases of typhus fever, Dr. Graham has found such fumes to be more effectual as a disinfectant than anything else-. . It is a singular circumstance, too, that while sulphuric acid has been quite recently discovered to be actually aim important cure for cholera itself, either sulphurous or sulphuric acid will be found to have been highly esteemed by the medical faculty of the last two centuries as a cure for plague ! We may also mention the fact, as an interest— in one, corroborative of the idea that the finnes of g sulphur might be of essential service as a PrutecthL. against cholera, that although from recent causes intensifying to predisposition to cholera in one petl,_en: part of the town of Luton, that town, which irs. t,ll_,lif"l, quarters or capital of the straw-plait and bon' which sulphur must be constantly converterdo, 1_ the private dwellings, into -fumes of sulpht3 147,11"L`.,18-z7 perfectly free from cholera both in 1832 yid "111 who have ever Moreover, the fact must be familiar to through countries =had correspondence transmitted districts infected with plague (at least it used to be soh. bacenneltussedtroasnglaydoifsinsifileephtanurt„.. tiltisatfumletetieirsin, &facc.,t iiniaysuincghlcfnges within a dwelling, in plague'—as, for' instance,er ilnosuiwr lazarettos. As than Achslofno.rnein, jury to ,metallic pliurous acid mustor a. ai The Builder. very usual disinfectant,i andL. it is much cheaper as well as practically more eueett boetii much articles e. w