The Reformer's Almanac, and Companion to the Almanacs 1848

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: folly and wickedness. Is famine to devour for ever ? Are the honest and industrious poor to be always thus trampled on ? If T were one of those Aristocratic Land-Monopolists, I should be ashamed to show ray head. They are a cruel and ungodly race. 4 Lord end 'em, or mend 'em, and that very soon.' A WONDEEFUL ASSOCIATION AT LEEDS. The Leeds Times of December 18, states that the Committee of the Leeds Association for improving the breed of pigs and poultry, received last week the gracious permission of Prince Albert, expressed in a letter to Mr. Purchon, to present Mm with a pig of the large Yorkshire breed, intended for the farm at Windsor. The silly creatures ! to ask of a man permission to present him with a pig. Had he not pigs enough ? Was there nobody else in the country that needed pigs more than he ? Might they not have disposed of their pig nearer home, without the wretched humiliation of writing to obtain permission to present it ? The simpletons ! It is grievous to think that there should be such wretched, crouching sycophants so near one's dwelling. A committee at Leeds, for improving- the breed of pigs and poultry, obtained the gracious permission of Prince Albert to present him with a pig ! A com - inittee at Leeds, in the midst of a vast population, many thousands of which are starving at this hour for want of a little bread, pass by their famishing neighbours, and leave them to perish for want of food, and ask permission of a man, a foreigner, who has a Hundred Thousand a year to live upon, besides a million for his wife, and those vast sums of money taken partly from the pockets of their starving, famishing neighbours, ?yes, this committee ask permission to present Prince Albert with a pig ! I wish this committee of the Leeds Association for improving the br..