The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-05-28 00:00:00

LIMERICK POLITICAL UNION.—A most extraordinary sedi-
tious.meeting, under the above designation, took place in the
City of Limerick on Monday last, the notorious itinerant Agi-
tator, Tom Steele, iu the chair. The pretext was, the confir-
mation of the Messrs. Roche as the representatives of the city.
We shall not degrade our columns with the ravings of insanity,
or the deliberate expressions of treason ' • but, as a specimen of
Mr. Steele's popular oratory, let our readers take the following
passage. Alluding to the Coercion Bill as first framed in the
House of Lords, the "fire and fury" orator thus expressed
himself :—" Had it passed into law in the House of Commons,
as it had come to it from Pandemonium, the Pandemonium of
the House of Lords, it ?could he declared be in his( Mr." Steele's)
opi:iion, the duty of O'Connell to put himself
.at the head of the
people, and of all Ireland at that moment to burst into one volcanic
rebellion (tremendourcheers). He had now gone through all
he had said before the minions of Government and those whom
he thought would report to Government what he had said;
and he would repeat, that had that Coercive Bill passed into law
as it had come to the Commons from Pandemonium, no Irishman
would deserve to live one hour if he did not take his pike in: his
hand to oppose it" (great cheers.) After this, if Steele be not
put up, and the Limerick Union put gown, Lord Grey's Minis-
try cannot be too soon put out.—Dublin Warder.
THE PRISON OF MUNICH.—I was greatly pleased by a visit to
the prison of Munich. The principle of this excellently reom-
lated, establishment is, that every one in it gains his own br4d.
Every prisoner is obliged to work at his own trade, so that there
is no kind of handicraft that is not going on within the prison
walls. It is like a general manufactory,—carpenters,' black-
smiths, saddlers, tailors, shoemakers, dyers, all are seen plying
their trades : but no one is forced to work beyond what is ne-
cessary for his sustenance; whatever he gains by his labour,
more than suffices to maitain him, is kept until the term of his
imprisonment expires, and is then given to him, deducting a
quota for the expenses of the establishment. There is a separate
workshop allotted to each trade ; the prisoners work in company,
and are permitted to converse upon allowed topics,—overseers
being of course present. Shortly before I visited the prison, a
man, whose term of punishment had expired, received no less
than 800 florins (about £8.3 sterling) upon leaving the prison.—
Criminals who are admitted at so early an age as not to have
learnt a trade, arc permitted to make choice of one, which is
taught them. Women (who are rigorously separated from the
male ,prisoners,) follow their trades also; we see embroidery,
stocking-weaving, straw-hat making and plaiting, and all the
other kinds of labour in which women are engaged'; women who
have been servants before are servants still,—cooks are cooks,
housemaids housemaids. In fact, the interior service of the
prison is performed by the criminals, and all their wants are sup-
plied by themselves or their neighbours.—lnglis's Tyrol.