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      TO THE WORKING CLASSES . _IMPORTANT TESTIMONIAL . We are always gratified in noticing the laudable exertions ofthe _iudustrious and provident among our fellow-labourers in tlie social vineyard , to avert from themselves and families , as far as human foresightmay do , the calamities attendant upon an old age of destitution , or a period of wearisome inactivity and nselessness , _Uirough sickness oraccident ; and we will venture io say , that up to the extreme limit of what is called tiic middle class of society , there is no method so likely to attain the object as the institution of securely based andjudiciousl yregulatedBenefit . Societies . Ourattention was some time since called to the subject by tbe proceedings of one accordant with our views , enrolled under ' , the title of « THE ROYAL OAK BENEFIT SOCIETY , ' and established at the Mitre Tavern , St . Martin ' s-Iane . The advantages proposed to the members appear to be calculated upon a scale of liberality that requires and deserves extensive support . From the result of our examination of their rules , and the satisfactory explanations given as regards their practical operations , we do not now hesitate to recommend the society to every industrious and prudent man as highly deserving attention , whether viewed witli lefer-« nee to its immediate or its prospective advantages . "Weekly ChrovicU , March , 1833 . FELLOW BRETHREN , look to your own interests , and hasten to join that well-regulated Benefit Society , THE ROYAL OAK , established 1837 . The Committee meet at tho Mitre Tavern , 68 , St , Martin _' _s-lane , every Tuesday evening , at eight o ' clock , for the admission of Members whose ages do not exceed thirty-six years , being in good health , and their income arising from their business or employment averaging 24 s . per week . The Society is enrolled by Act of Parliament , and is conducted upon an economical and secure principle . AU unnecessary fines are abolished , and it allows the members to belong to any other society , atthe same time being a member ofthe Royal Oak . It has paid every demand made upon its funds , which in eight years amounts to £ 7 , 000 , and has a Funded Capital of £ 3 , 000 invested in the Bank of England , the interest of which produces the Society upwards of £ l 60 perannum . Tradesmen and mechanics , residiug in the country _. howererdistant , are eligible foradmission , _Ttithout personal attendance , hy fining a printed form and transmitting it to the Secretary . Look around , aud see the number of Societies breaking up , when most needed , in consequence of . tha extra payments on a Quarterly Meeting being too ' . heavy for a workiBg man to meet on a ¦ udden demand : This Society boasts of the much wanted principle of a Fixed Quarterly Payment , there being no extras , as in roost others ; the Subscription is 4 s . per Calendar Month , or payable Quarterly , and no Fines ; so that every member , however distant , is enabled to send by Post-office Order the full amountof his Quarterly Subscription . The following are the Benefits of the Society : — £ ¦ s . In Sickness , per week ... 018 Superannuation , ditto ... O 4 Funeral f Beafh of a Member 20 OT Thesebenefits money { Death of Member's Wife 10 0 I arechargedas Wife ' s Lying-in ......... 2 0 J extrasinother - Loss by Fire ........ . .... 15 0 J Societies . Entrance Honey only 3 s . 64 . under tliirty-two years of age—5 s . Tinder thirty-six . Lose no time in enrolling your names while in health and vigour ( we know not what a day may bring fortli ) . The Rules may be seen ( gratis ) at the Society House , or purchased , price Gd . each . Printed Forms and Prospectuses sent to any part of the country , free , by _enclosing a postage stamp ' to the Secretary , H . Holies , 17 , Cecilcour t , St _HarthVs-Iane , London .

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      THE variable state of tho WEATHER has produced the numerous cases of low feverand debility existing at present , andisasnre indication of habitual costireiiess , caused generally by want of care in attending to the state of the digestive visceral organs . The only real remedy in snch cases is LORD ELDO > " _* S APERIENT PILLS , rrbich hare been the means of positive cure to many thousands ; _thev are peculiarly adapted for persons of both sexes who are of sedentary habits , they are patronised by the nobility and gentry , _andare the mildest andmostefficacionsmeaicine extant . Soldin boxes at ls . 3 M ., _2 s . 9 d ., and 4 s . iBd . by Messrs . _BarclayMdCo ., 95 , Farrin-don-street ; Sutton and Co ., 10 . Bow Church-yard ; _Uewbury , 45 , and Edwards , G 5 , St . Paul ' s ; Sanger , 150 , OxfordVstreet ; and by aU respectable Druggists and Medicine Tenders in the kingdom ; aud wholesale at 13 , Great St . Thomas Apostle , London . TESTWOS 1 AL TO lOBD _ELBOS ' S FILLS . Six , —I have subjected to a careful chemical analysis the Pills prepared by you , and find them to consist of effectual bat safe aperients without any mercurial preparation whatever . Yours , Ac , - . ' . A . URE , M . D ., r . R . S . 13 , _Charlotte-strwt , Bedford-square , London , fist - ¦

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      , LESSORS -IN- MILLINER * AND -DRESS- - MAKING . _> . MAT _/ AME CALLIOS , 44 , New Bond-street , continues her superior inethod of teaching the art of -Dress-Making . _Sheundertakes to make persousof the smallest capacity proficient in Cutting , Fitting , and Executing , iu the most finished style , in Six _Lussms , for Ofl ' eJPound . Her superior method can be fully substantiated by references to pupils , and has never been equaUedi . by . auy competitor . Ij _^ _T Practice hours from eleven till four .

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      _SHOEWSBURTv WOLVERHAMPTON , _0 > UBLEY , AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , to the _holdereof OLD SCRIP CERTIFICATES , that , on and after the 30 th instant , f uch numbers of Old Scrip as shall not-havc been esrfcanged _, will be reissued pro rota to tbose _^ parties who have signed die new Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers * Agreement : and the holders of such-Scrip Certificates may have tlie whole of tlie deposit _,-nbich has been paid thereon , returned to them , but cannot after the 30 - Jx instant be permitted to exchange tlieir _Seripibr new Certificates , nor to register tlie same after _the-Ceiupatiy shall have obtained their Act of Parliament . The Deeds will lie for signature at the White Horse , _Lec-ds _^ ou . Tuesday , the 10 th instant , between the hours of ten . and four , and at the Company ' s Office , from the 11 th to lieJ 6 _th , and on Saturday , the 30 th instant . _l ! y Order , GEORGE KNOX . Secretary . Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Offices , 3 , _Moorgate-atreet , 7 th August , 1 S 45 .

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      IKE HISTORY OF THE CONSULATE AND EMPIRE OF FRANCE . NOW PUBLISHING , In _W-etWy Numbers , price Id ., and in Parts , price 6 d ., THE HISTORY OF THE CONSULATE _jAND J 3 MP 1 RE OF FRANCE , under Napoleon , ibyM . _TniEns , Author of tlie " History of the French Revolution , " late President of the Council , and Member of the Chamber of Deputies . _CotiBvnoss . —The work wiU be neatly priuted va . _Uro columns , royal octavo , from a new and beautiful type , and on fine paper . Also aniform witli the _nbore , in 'WeeklvNumbers ,. prcce 2 d ., and in Monthly Parts , price 8 d ., "THE _PEOPL-B'S EDITION OF THIERS * HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION , " foiiniug together four handsome volumes . On tlie completion _« f the Work , a general preface , introductory to tlie History of Napoleon , with Titles , Index , ic , will bc given , tints forming a complete standard classical book of general reference , aud interesting perusal . Of the vast interest connected with the important national events which took place during the consular and imperial rule of Napoleon there can be no question . In undertaking to record the events of this momentous period , M . Tjdiebs , from his high position in the state , had the good fortune to obtain possession of a multiplicity of original and official document" ; , which embrace the minutest details of all the instructions , orders , & c . _j dictated by Napoleon himself to his Ministers of State , Privy Councillors , Prefects , Marshals , and others . ' " Of tlie success of his undertaking , the rapid sale of the three first volumes , which lvere issued at Paris on the : 15 th of March , amounting to 16 , 000 iu one day , and the numerous editions which have been published at Brussels , Leipsic , and other places , affords the most splendid testimony . London : G . TICKERS , _HolyweU-street , Strand .

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      JUST PUBLISHED , In ono volume , foolscap Svo ., neat cloth , price 7 s . Gd ., THE PUKGATORY OF SUICIDES A Prison Rhyme : in Ten Books : BY THOMAS _COOl'ER THE CHARTIST . J . How , Publisher , 132 , Fleet-street . ' . ' ' . _% 3 r Orders firom fee Country to De sent _Uvrc-ugli the Booksellers .

      Co-Operative Land Society. '¦- .,.

      CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY . _'¦ _- _.,.

      I Hereby Direct That All Monies Pajable ...

      I hereby direct that all monies pajable tome , as treasurer to the Chartist Co-operative Land Fund , must be transmitted as follows : —Either by Rank order or Post-office order , to the " care of Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., - 310 Strand , London ; " and payable to me , " W . P . Koberts . " That is , that my signature shall be required to each order . This direction is . plain . For instance , say that Edward Ilobson , of Ashton , has £ 10 to transmit ; lie is to transmit tlie same to Mr . O'Connor , by Bank letter or _Tost-oniee order , made payable to W . P . Bobertsi That order I can sign when I go to London , or when a parcel of them are sent to me . The two only things required to secure the triumph of Labour ' s battle- are , union among the working classes , and _underrating

      honesty and punctuality on the part of those who have the management of their affairs , I therefore adopt this plan , that we may have upon each other as many salutary checks as possible . This is advisable , as much for our own mutual satisfaction , as for the satisfaction of the subscribers . I _thereforevequestthat these plain and simple instructions may bc punctually attended to in all cases . To save additional postage , ' each letter containing a money order , may also contain a list of the respective sums , and all other information necessary for the _general secretary , Mr . Wheeler , to have ; which letter Mr . O'Connor will duly forward to hiui _. This done , there can be no puzzle about the accounts .

      "W . P . Kobeuts , Treasurer . AS orders should be made payable at ISO , Strand , London . —W . P . R . [ The above mode has been adopted at my suggestion , in consequence of the endless trouble I have had , owing to some parties sending me Post-oflice orders payable to ' my order ; and some to Mr . Roberts' order . Obseivanee of tlie above very simple rule will insure uniformity , satisfaction , and protection . There is a difficulty at the branch Post-offices about getting monies , when the orders are * not signed by the persons to whom they are made pay able . _Feabods O'Co . nnob . ]

      The Nokthem Star. Saturday, August 16, 18≪5.

      THE NOKTHEM STAR . SATURDAY , AUGUST 16 , 18 _< 5 .

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      " PANIC" IN THE ¦ "SI 1 ARE MARKET . " "KEPTJTjlATIOX" IN ENGLAND ! O . v several recent occasions we have deemed it a duty to warn those who read the Nortiiern Star , of the tad reverses tliat were certain to follow on the mad speculations so rashly engaged in by those who felt no scruple at obtaining " wealth" ¦ by means as discreditable , as nefarious , and as immoral , as those of the hazard and card " players" of the " plucking hells" of the West End : the facts wc arc now about to adduce will show the public how far such warnings were warranted , and what reason there is to apprehend a state of things in the " money" and " manu factoring markets , "—when the reverse now experienced in Leeds becomes general , —compared with which the most of former ' * panics" have been slight

      indeed . On one of the occasions to which we allude , we set forth the fact that the gambling mania in Railway Shares was far wider spread than any mania of a similar character which had formerly obtained amongst us . "We showed that it had pervaded nearly the whole of the trading classes , instead of being confined , as once was wont , to the frequenters ofthe Hell-spawned "Exchange" of London . \ Ve showed also , that it had particularly manifested itself in the towns of the North ; and that Leeds was the most infected of all . This was the case at the time we then

      wrote ; and the course of events have since shown the statement to be more applicable than ever . The Miama spread in that town most alarmingly . Hundreds were " drawn in" to the vortex , that but a few months ago would have shrunk aghast at the bare idea of engaging in such dishonest practices . Tlie "force of example" in evil was hardly ever more forcibly manifest . Men who knew—who felt , that it was wrong to gav _& _le—WROXG to _tbx to obtain ' TirEiR xeighbour _' s MEASS WITHOUT AN EQUIVALENT—wrong to risk the livelihood ! of their own families on a mere chance ; men who knew

      and felt all this , were induced to do violence to their feelings—to sacrifice the principles they held—and to engage in the gambling transactions of the hour with all the zeal that usually attends recent and sudden conversion . These , in their turn , set the example to others ; until , at last , the ordinary business of the town was threatened with serious interruption from the sheer inability of the shopkeepers to attend to it , and watch , with the requisite eagerness and closeness , the proceedings " on ' change . " It was no unusual thing for

      travellers , when seeking orders , to find the tradesman so deeply engaged in conning over the last-published share list , or in consulting "his book , "—for in the shave-market" a hook" is as indispensable as it is to the black-leg on the turf , —as to be unable to " honour him with commands ; " and not unfrequently did customers themselves meet with similar treatment . But it was not to the tradesmen alone that these practices were confined . ¦ _Shophoys , butchers' lads , minors ' , apprentices ; those who were net possessed of a single sixpence of their own , nor any prospects from their friends , have been as deepl y

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      engaged in the " play " - _^ is some of the " weighty enes . " ¦* It , has been _-no' -unusual thing for a _meise youth to "buy" and ' _^ sell" hundreds of shares a-< _lay ; and the ? butclrcr i rads of the town of Leeds have actually , by a course . of systematised " operations , '? _enhanced and _lowered-aJ will the value of millions of ¦ _** property ! " The extent of the entire " operations '" was such , as to call for the efforts of the magistracy to clear the streets for the ordinary traffic ofthe town .. ' There are no less thar . _thbee " Exchanges" in Leeds-. ; These abut oil the respective streets wherein they arc situate ; and the infernal jargon that obtains during

      the hours of business can be heard most distinctly by the passers by . Those , therefore , of the traffickers who were too poor or- too penurious to employ " sharebrokers , " assembled near to these places of traffic , and governed their oun independent transactions by what they heard- geing on inside . This course of conduct , and tho consequcntexcitemcnt , caused siich crowds to daily . assemble , that the streets became impassable ; and the . Afayor of the town had to issue s , " warning-notiee , " and the police had to be employed in making the gamblers " move on : " an occupation , by-thc-bye , far more sensible and praiseworthy

      thannine-tenths of . these they usually engage in . Had they been employed in extirpating the entire practice of " share-dealing" from the land , it would have better become : their "lords" and " masters" than the attempts they instigated for the prevention of thimble-rigging at'Epsom ; and much likelier to destroy and uproot the wicked and destructive vice Of gaming , than the fining of a poor insignificant beerhouse-keeper for permitting a game at cards or "dominoes" in his house ! A good notion ofthe extent ofthe " booktransactions" at Leeds may be _gatheredfroniithefollowiiig extract from the Leeds _ilercui-y , who . in his last number says : —

      It is not an uncommon thing for 100 , 000 railway shares to bc sold in one day in the share markets at Leeds . The state lotteries of other times , and the _gambling houses of the metropolis , : ave and were mere bagatelles for "; tho spirit of adventure , " compared with the railway , { hare exchanges , v The shares thus " sold" arc some of them of £ 100 each ; few less than £ 50 : but taking the whole , at £ 50 each , here is GAMBLING engaged in by-hundreds ' and by thousands ; the " stakes" daily being

      £ 3 , 000 , 000 of money !!! The Mercury may in . deed well say that all former " play" was mere bagatelle compared with this ! To use his own language on a former _occasion : — " Tlie scientific game of Whist is falling rapidly into disuse , both ladies and gentlemen who were accustomed to indulge iii this amusement , preferring decidedly the excitement of the share market to that of the card-room . This is all very well iii a rising market ; but under a change of circumstances it may , end not only in' Beggar my neighbour , 'but in , 'Beggar myself . '"

      As might naturally be expected , all this contributed to engender a spirit of the most daring recklessness . A pprchciision of consequences never once crossed the mind—or , if so , was instantly dismissed , and the parties set to work , as though vicing with each other as to which could do the most to hasten the end that should end themsetves . It was not tangible " shares " that they alone gambled in : shares of companies and lines already in existence : but the moment that any sort of a scheme was named—likely or unlikely—at home or abroad—at it they went like madmen , gambling for and in the already unallotted shares . ' A dealer would sell a certain number ' , of the said

      shares , to be delivered within a certain time—trusting tociiAXCE tobe able to buy them for such delivery before such time expired ; and trusting also lo ciiax ' ce in the price at which lie could so buy , for his profit or loss on the transaction . _, ' _-.: It mattered . not that these—and all traffic in Joint-Slock-Com panics ' shares , unless such companies have " received the legislative sanction of Parliament ; is grossly illegal , and subjects the _trafficeivlo £ 10 . penalty for each transaction ; it mattered not _that'siichu'arfangsds the following were issued : —; , _^ , 22 -, 2 ; ! _C 22

      _^ Ifyou will turn to the 7 th and , 8 th of Victoria , c . illO , being an Act for the Registration , . Incorporation , and Regulation of Joint-stock , Companies , you . willfind that by section 23 ofthe act on the provisional registration of anj conipany , it is thereby declared to be lawful for the promoters of such company , amongst ' other things , to allot shares and to receive deposits thereon , as-therein mentioned : by section 25 of the same act , on the COMFLETE BEoisTRATioN of any company , it is thereby declared to be lawful , amongst other things , to issue certificates of shares : by the following section of the act , it is , amongst other things , declared that until such joint-stock company

      shaUhave ohlained accrtificate o / COMPLETE REGISTRATION , and until any subscriber sludl be DULY REG ISTEHED as a shareholder in Oie _reyislry-cffieeofthe company , it shall not bc lawful for such person to dispose by sale or mortgage of any share , under a forfeiture of £ 10 , as therein mentioned ; and for the better protecting purchasers , it is thereby declared to be the duty ofthe directors oft he company by whom certificates of shares are issued , to state on every such certificate the'date of the first complete registration of the company ; and that if any such director or officer make a false statement in that respect , _tlu-u he should be liable to the pains and penalties of a misdemeanour ;"

      it mattered not that the above important provisions we re enacted to put an end to the gambling in scripshares , . which has always been attended with the most serious consequences—encouraging fraud , and effecting the ruin of the unwary and ignorant ; it mattered not that no person can safely deal in railway shaves , till after the Act of Parliament is obtained , because , till then , there can be no complete registiunox ; it mattered not that no contract for the sale of mere scrip-shares can be enforced : it mattered not all these things : the spirit of GAMBLING wason this people . They gambled in legitimate shares and in illegitimate ones : and the consequences have been those we arc about to detail .

      While Yorkshire has _thusbeen torn to pieces with tho _iaadspeculatioiisofthegenei'alsliaredealevs , ithasalso had most severe and costly bones of contention in the shape of rival schemes of new railways in the county 'tsclf—particularly the western portion . Many of the towns in the west were totally devoid of railway communication ; and others of them that were within a mile or two of the Manchester and Leeds line , were so hampered up with the inferior and illiberal arrangements of that company as to be little better off with the " accommodation . " This treatment roused a spirit of hostility to the " Manchester management ; " and a scheme of railways , embracing and connecting most ofthe towns in the Wc 3 t Riding , was announced , the company proposing to call themselves "the "West Yorkshire . " In addition to this

      there were also schemes of Railway communication between Huddersfieid and Manchester—and Leeds , Dcwsbury , and Cooper-bridge : the two latter schemes forming a new , continuous , and direct line to Manchester , and coming into direct competition with the existing Manchester and Leeds line . It is _nccf ' , less to say that all these schemes were opposed by the hitter company . It was manifestly their interest to oppose . They started a ri ral scheme , called " the West Riding Junction ; " the management of whichwas ill effect to be in their own hands , and the new lines made tributary to the present existing line . The

      Board of Trade reported in favour of tlie West Riding Junction scheme , and against the West Yorkshire . This caused the slums to rise to a high premium in the market , and reduced the West Yorkshires . When the parties came before Parliament , however the Huddersfieid and Ashton , and the Dcwsbury and Leeds , succeeded in carrying the day , in despite of the most costly opposition of tho Manchester nnd Leeds . The success of these two projects , so directly against the Manchester management , caused a reaction in favour of the West Yorkshire project , though the two lines which had succeeded were not portions - . . of that scheme . Many parties therefore

      risked their " all" in the purchase of West Yorkshire shares . When the two immediately opposing schemes camo before the Committee of the House of Commons ,-the West Yorkshire and tlie West Hiding Junction , —the latter " bore away the bell , " and the preamble of the Yorkshire was declared tobe " not proven . " The consequence was , - that the shares went down most alarmingly—and many parties were totally rained , We gave an instance , when last writing on this subject ; of V party who'lost £ S 00 O at " , one fell swoop " , by . that decision . It was now again the turn of tlie West Riding Junction shares to " go up "—for the bill seemed to be ' secure . It passed the

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      : Gomni 6 ns—and * got '' into tlie Lords . The "Lords ' _!< Committee , '' . "however , heard the evidence -of the _tpvomoters' of the West Yorkshire scheme 'against the West Riding Junction scheme ; and they ,. ti : riw out the -bill- " which had been sent up .. irom thelower house , on the ground that it did not provide the best scheme of Railway communication . for the district that could be devised . This decision was unexpected—and - . _- ¦ " played the -very , deuce " , in I the Share Market . The holders of 'West Riding [ . Junctions now suffered . The losses of some of them _ ,

      were immense . Some members of-the Town _Council of Leeds were "in" for a good number of thousands . But this decision placed _iboth the rival schemos on an equality—equally defeated . They were not , it is true , in the same position as at first : for both had spent the" deposits'" in -the Parliamentary contest . Still this did not damp _ithe ardour of the speculate : _s ., ; At ifc they again went—selling and buying share against ' . ' share , ; and "; foi < eing up" and ithcn "depressing" the prioeoffiistone and then the other . / .. . "' . ' . ¦ _- ' _a-.-:- : : ' ¦ ¦ ¦ _:-

      But while this last _proeess was going on , another party appeared in trie field to contest the prize . The gentry , of Huddersfieid ,: elated with itlio signal success that had attended all their schemes , and taking advantage of the Lords' reason for rejecting the West Riding Junction Bill , formed awllier project oflines to connect the towns which were so despemtely fought for by the West Riding Junction and the West Yorkshire companies . Tliis third scheme -was ' called " the Huddersfieid , Halifax , and _Bradford : Union . " The announcement of the projected

      ¦ company was made—and applications for shares asked fcr . As ' - ' usual , the applications poured in on all . sides . Tlie . shares , art , not even " ailokied" YET : but this did not prevent an active " traffic'" - , in them . Parties ' speculated on the _ch-ixck of their applications being successful ; and they " sold" the shares at a premium , as though tlicy had been in actual possession , engaging to deliver them at the price agreed on within a certain time . In this manner some eighty thousand of _tliCBe shares have been ' ¦ sold "—though it was only proposed to issue fifteen thousand at the first . ' . ' . '

      : During ' the course of / this reckless _gambling , circumstances were transpiring calculated to produce a woeful" change in the spirit of tho whole : dream . " The parties to the two rival . schemes tliat had been before Parliament , knew _sometliiiig of the cost of contests there ; and they therefore made overtures to each ' other , and ultimately effected an amalgamation on certain conditions . This step . had a considerable effect on the shares of both companies , who now became one ; fov they went up franc £ 1 premium to £ 15 . The amalgamation was agreed to on Friday , August 1 st . After that date , therefore , there were only in the field tho two united companies and the

      Huddersfieid , ' Halifax , and Bradford Union . As it was deemed unlikely that the latter would succeed against the Manchester and Leeds , nowunited with the West Yorkshire promoters , the shares were "beared , " as the cant phrase is—or sold to an immense extent . The price at which they were sold was about 30 s . ; and the engagements were to deliver them at a certain time . On Monday week , however , a meeting was held in Manchester , at which it was determined to admit the Iliiddcrsfield , Halifax , and Bradford

      union into the amalgamated West Riding Junction and West Yorkshire Companies ; thus making one united company of the three opposing ones , to seek for the formation of the best portions of the projected lines of each . The news of this junction came like a -thunderbolt on the' Leeds speculators . . The shares which tlicy had sold so readily , and ; which others had as readily . ; 'bought , ' rose in price . ¦ They sprung up from 30 s ! to' £ 10 , _; £ 12 ,. ahd eycn ; £ 15 !; The effect of this will be . learned from 'tlie . Mowing , which wc extract from ' the Times ofthursdav : — -. ;¦• -. ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ _-, < _-.-

      -;• Through' . paragraph ' s in the 'Timet _, ahd other journals , it has long been krio \ vn ' tli ' at'in ' no ' town in _[ the _kiiijjilon ) was theinam ' aof ' _Bpcciilatibn'iirriiirwaypi'pjects ' soi _^ _vim-l lent as in Leeds ; "i ' 'lVithiii thV present ; yoar _^ np '' fewcr than . three companies 1 of associated shar ' _idirbkcr _^ each companydaily publishingits _' oiviilist-of sales ' aiid pricesjliave started into existence , numbering from 100 , to I 20 _] per > spiisi ' and _. _' _-such was ' the amount of bu _^ ines ' _^ dpiie , that it was confidently stated that ' soinc of tuein-wei-e making

      from £ 5000 to _i'COOO a-year each . In spite of the 'illegality of the tranactione , too , much business was done in projects antecedent to the issuing of tbe scrip . Men of ciipital and men of straiv—men of respectability and men of none—men of integrity . nnd men devoid of _principlehaye almost _efjually engaged in buying iind selling , iimmediutcly and , i > _i-ospcetivcly , railway shares ; and , such has been the / ever and excitement , kept up for months in the . town by . the railway bulls and : bears , that reckless speculation ' seemed to threaten with destruction much , of the legitimate business of the town . . , , ' ... ; .

      . There is an old proverb . which says "Every dog hath his day ; " _iind . itiippeiirs . that " railway speculation liutli had its day ia Leeds . The day hath gone , and the night hath conic . - : ' ; . A dark cloud hath ovei shadowed the 'Change ; and whispers—deep , audible , and unmistakable—of "repudiation'' and " compromise" have become the order of the day . The following accounts of the crisis is given ' in the Leeds Mercury of Saturday last : — "The totally unexpected amalgamation ofthe Huddersfieid , , Halifax , and . Bradford . U"km Railway with the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company , has had the most extraordinary aud . unhappy effect on great numbers of speculators in shares in this . nnd the neighbouring

      towns . According to the fatal system which prevails so extensively of persons selling shares without possessing them , on the speculation of being nble to buy them at a lower price before tlie time conies for their delivery , a vast number of these shares had been sold in the market , —no less , it is said , than S 0 , 000 ! The number of shares originally announced in the , prospectus of this railway was only 15 , 000 , and the ' number , which the committee have actually to allot , according to tho agrcemeut with the Manchester and Leeds , is only 7 , 500 .: As soon as tbe _arrangement ' with the hitter company was known , the

      shares sprung up from 80 s . to £ 10 , £ 12 , and even £ 15 , — partly owing to ' . the real value of the . shares as stock of the Manchester and Leeds Company , and partly from the rush into the market of those who had previously sold shares , to obtain them for delivery . The consequence has been , the absoluteinability of those who had previously sold on speculation to fulfil their bargains ; nnd this inability is all but universal both among : brokers and their clients . Under these extraordinary circumstances , the members of the Leeds Stock-Exchange met on Thursday , and adopted tlie following resolutions : —

      "' That no buyer of shares in any projected railway where the scrip was not issued at the date of the contract , shall be allowed to buy in such shares _agaicst the seller , but that the members of the _Exchanfe be required to do their utmost to effect a just and amicable arrangement with each other of any contracts for such shares in which they may have been engaged , and be bound to abide by the decision ofthe committee of management as to the . mode of such arrangement . ' : . ¦ "' That no dealings be hereafter permitted in shares of which the scrip is not issued , with the exceptions of such transactions as maybe entered into with the express view of promoting the settlement of transactions nowopen . '

      ; "We surely need not say what a fatal lesson is here given to the public against the practice of gambling in slmves .. The second resolution passed by tlie Leeds Stoek Excliaiige _. if generally acted iipoii _. would palliate tlie evil ; but the only ettcetual cure is tobe found in abaudouing the practice of jobbing . The purchase of shares for investment is most legitimate ; but experience shows that jobbing in shares is exceedingly dangerous , and must be ruinous to many , as well as interfere most perniciously with ryjular industry , "

      The rule " on 'Change" is , that when a seller neglects to deliver the shares he may have sold at the time specified , the _iuyerisat liberty to buy them in the market at the then price , and charge the neglecting seller with the difference . As before stated , eighty thousand shares in this particular lino have been sold at 30 s . They are now at £ 15 !! The seller at 30 s ., to be honest ; to fulfil his engagements , must purchase shares at £ 15 , and hand , them over to the party he originally sold to , for 30 s . ; losing £ 1310 s . on each , share 1 This nine-tenths of them cannot do ! Thky have kot tub meaxs ; and if they had , the bave fact of such a number having to bo purchased would about double the price again , seein _» that

      there are but 7 , 500 shares to allot ! To keep faith therefore IS CERTAIN RUIN to scores ! As honest and honourable men , thoy are bound to part with the last farthing they have ; but iiiey are GAMBLERSand they naturally look for the thorough gambler ' s resort , when fortune frowns . They talk of Repudiating ! They lme no objection to pocket the profits of gambling ; they see no impropriety in becoming possessed of thousands of other people ' s money _rith _outgiving - or «< l « _tMfent _/*^ t ; tW . yhavc no qua ' lnisof conscience against " lobbing the winnings : " but to parfcwith the " ws ! Ms ,, quite anotiier thing _vriw N _^; a .: : word _: aWut _^

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      legality . ' ¦ " It _^ s not legal buy and sell such shares . Just so : but why did you not say this when you were gaining ? . The . truth is , the infernal system . has eateii . oiit your soiils . You . have no principle of honour left . You are GAMBLERS—thorough ' and essentially GAMBLERS : and as such you ' are oblivious to . all the feelings and tics that bind hohourableand hohestmen together . The bare fact , that you seek to get money by such means snows you to bc conscienceless . You are seeking to get what you have - ' _-. ' . .. ' -. ' _-.- .. _" _,, « ' ' - . _*•' - - v - '_; ( f

      not worked for , nor given an equivalent for . All you get must necessarily come out of the pockets ot somebody else . In all likelihood it is the price of ruin ; what of that ?—have you not got the money ? What matters . it that a wife and family should be plunged in misery—steeped to the ears in poverty—have you not got wSiat teas theirs ? To talk of honour in connection with such a system is to insult common sense . It is of . infernal origin ; it is infernal in practice ; anil it can only lead to infernal results . '

      But about this llcpudiution . It is true that such a course is openly advocated , and likely to be adopted The Lieils Jlercury of Saturday says : — In the Leeds Association of Sharebrokers , wc under stand that it has been determined to repudiate altogether the bargains in this railway , ou ( lie alleged ground that the committee have not fulfilled the cxpeciations held out in their prospectus as to tlie number of shares to be allotted to the public . All bargains in shares where the scrip has not been issued being illegal , payment' earmot be enforced by law ;' but we need not say what the effect of the repudiation must be on the parties . Ancnt this same purpose of Repudiation , the Times of Thursday has the following : —

      To show the feeling of tbe gamblers— -for that is the proper term for these recusant s ] ieeu ! ato : s—we need but give copies of the Mowing placards , which . ' were extensively posted in Leeds on last Tuesday morning : — " Caution . —AU parties who have sold shares in the iruddcrsficM , Halifax , and Bradford Union Ha Iway Company arc earnestly' recommended to repudiate the bargains they have made , which they are fully justified in doing , owing to the altered circumstances of the ' company , the constitution of which lias been completely changed bifore the allotment of tlie shares . —August 12 , _18-15 . " '• . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ _' : - .: ¦

      " ItAiLWAi Injustice . —In the prospectus of the Hudderstield , Halitiix , and . Bradford Union iiailivny Company , issued tome weeks ago , the public were invited to send in their applications for . shares which would be _ullottcd so them on payment of a deposit of £ 1 ' 2 s . per share . ' It is notorious thai _pstrties immediately ' connected with this line have _brought shares to an extent far above the number actually existing ; and when by an arrangement with ihe Manchester and Leeds ; Huddersfieid and Sheffield , and other lilies , they have raised " the price in the various markets to' a premium of £ 15 , they coolly turn round upon the public _^ aud snv , 'Alt the ' shares in this company are to be givcii to tbe _projirietors in the companies with whom we have amalgamated . '

      '" Shares ; to ' _ths _, extent of £ 80 , 000 havo been actually sold - . in ? the , Leeds market alone , at a low premium of about 30 s ., and so frightful are the consequences anticipated ' ' by . the stockbrokers , that the committee ' of . the Stock-Exchange _considered it necessary to frame a resolution to the effect that no bargains sliould be recognised in shares of any company not previously allotted . This resolution not being _retrospective , does not affect the crying injustice of tlie present , case ; and the extent of ruin to all parties in this affair is so alarming that it is expected a resolution will be come to , to fix a prico at which the shares are to be bought in .

      " This , it done , will only partially remedy the evil , and by no means meet the injustice of the case , which can bc looked upon in no other light than a gross fraud upon the public . It is earnestly hoped that all parties will unite in urgently requiring tliat all bargains iu the stock shall be cancelled , for by no other menus can total ruin be averted to many hundreds . " If injustice be admitted because the shares are at £ 15 premium , it is only a partial reduction of tlie robb _.-ry to lix a medium price of about £ 5 ; the transaction is either unjust and unfair , or it is not , and if the former be admitted _, ( as lio one . on ii for a moment deny ) the only remedy will be for the committee to recommend that all ilie bargains shall be cancelled . "

      There is one assertion , in the latter of these placards which we believe lo ' . be true : ' parties connected with the line have bought shares to a considerable extent . The fact is , that certain' parties - knew . ofthe arrangements that were pending ; ' kheiv of the probability of amalgamation : ; and knowing this ; and , knowing _^ was kiiown ' i tiic , shares _iwouldvmount up in : price , ; they most disinterestedly acted' on ; the -information thus possessed , and bought np all ; th ' at , camc'in ., tlicirwa ' y ! Of course all this wasfair ! . ; Who dare say to the contrary ? : . _= Not the _gamblers _iilt : -is' notTor himto complain . _'Btit'honestmen would shrink from so acting _.

      or so conceiving ; - Contrast the conduct of the actors on information in this disgraceful case , with the following instance of true integrity of soul evinced by Major CAifnyiiiGiii under similar circuiustauccs . Sec the PATRIOT rise superior to those low , sordid , base , mean , -grovelling , dishonest , pick-pocket notions which ' " influence the GAMBLER : and see in his conduct something to _adnuYe , something to kmuute _, to the end of time ! Contrast the highsouled principle of- the " Father of Radicalism" with those that actuate the . frequenters of your "Stock _Rxcliangcs ; " those that take every advantage , as the "pigeon plucker" of " the Hell" docs when he

      " plays" with loaded dice : — IVhcu an express from Paris was brought to Mr . Wharton , the American Minister in London , to negotiate tho ' exchange , of . prisoners during the American war , Major _Cartwi'ight was in the room with that gentleman . As soon as Air . Wharton read the despatch , he put his back to tiic door , and said ,. " Now , _Cartwright , you may maUean immense fortune ; " on this he put the despatch into Major Cartwrigbt ' s hands ; but did the latter take advantage of the information to go and gamble in the funds ? A ' o , ftedWiwt .,-Mr . Wharton told Major Cartwright that the information would not be hi the

      _possession of this . Government for twenty-four hours , and he pointed out the way in which the information might be turned to account by Major Cartwright . Hut that excellent man refused to take advantage of it , _foccnase whatever he should gain must be lost by somebody else . Everybody knew that Major Cartwri ght was not very rich ; but that was not the ' only sacrifice he made ' throughout for the sake of principle . There was another act of his , which every man who follows his doctrines ought to know—His brother lost all his property in a speculation hi ' machinery ; he relieved that brother from his embarrassnients .

      Let the GAMBLERS look at the example hei _' t afforded them , and scorn to take the advantages Ihcy now avail themselves of . Let the tiepndiator also look at the example afforded Idm _, and blush that the thought of acting with flagrant perfidy has once crossed his mind . Thus the blow is struck ! Terminate as the affair may-whethcr by fhe ruin of hundreds in the maintenance of their integrity , or in repudiation , or in _compromise-t _/ ic bloiu is struck ! Confidence in Leeds has received a shock ! If the parties involved submit to ruin—that ruin will not satisfy the claims ofthe successful gamblers . If they repudiate—nil the world will know who and wltat tlieyiirc _—\^ m vurv

      heady io must _iiniM . AOAis ! If they even compromise , confidence _cannot be restored to what it once was . The blow is struck at Leeds ; how long will it be ere it extend over all the land ? How long will it be , ere we have all the interests in the state suffering from the effects of this mad speculation . These questions wc shall attempt to solve on another occasion : meantime we conclude in the words of the 2 i « Ks ;— " Sooner or later the day will come when an untold proportion of this year ' s scrip-holders will be doubly pressed—no longer able to suffer the sums they have alread y paid to remain buried in the earthworks of an unfinished line , much less to pay vp the

      . puck recurring callsofthe company , A very triflfo " titll of the commercial thermometer will be sufficient to try the value of a hundred millions ' of promises A drop from fever-heat to blood-heat will shrink off paupers and pensioners , and nobodies and aliases , and bankers' clerks and aged cornets on half-pay , and fifty oilier ephemcriues of the market . A further descent to temperate heat will prove _scriouj to _shoplieejjcnt investing in scri p the inadequate capital of their trades ' TO ATTORNEYS mT 1 K 0 AT ' _HTCH-FARTHINo WITH _TmsT-itosEY , and to country clergymen sick of the monotonous Three per Cents . T / _mce to freezing point is a downfall almost too painful to contemp _late-uuen

      MORE THAT TO _ZEUO AND U . _XBEE , uHAth , it would It positively inhuman to predict , » id not rkcent expe RIK . _VCK ASSURE US THAT EVEN TIIE _"VVflRQ'P MUST COME . " VVUllS 1 The prospect is frightful !

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      That m the event of any important _altenn ; _,,. ; ., - , . _tioiis being made from . the original t , r „ _S _^' , evii ' - _ncwly-projectcd railway , _prevmusfto _tlie _^ _llotn _, _^^ the shares , whereby the constitution ( if « , „ I '"' ,. " materially changed , the members of this Bid _aS , _? , opinion , that contracts made on the fain , of ih » „ , _; . _i " ; prospectus , ought not to bo enforced . ° u , iu Honest men ! Honest men !! : _« ,:. _ _., ___ „ . Li * . ' ' . _*"

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      _^ c foregoing was „ , type _^^• _c lear n tliat Repudiation IS DETERMINED ON . _AtTlj meeting of tlio _" _vcspectttble" _Tpoition ofthe sharebrokers composing No . 1 "Stock Exchange" Jie ]( J on Mon . lay last , the following resolution , _intended a _tow « nlmpcciivc effect , _\ Y _^ passed ; _^ .

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      TIIE _BONE-GNAWING ATROCITY . Is another place will be found the report of an in . vestigation into certain allegations made in 1 _' aduv liicnt by Mr . Waklet , relative to practices _obtaining amongst the poor in the Andover Union . It v _\\[ bc found also that those allegations have , to tli _& eternal disgrace of this Government , been borne out by fact : ami that" human beings , in this Christian England , arc forced by law-produced poverty and _law-aclininistcrcd " charity , " to turn cannibals ' ; On those facts we dare not at present comment , but must content ourselves with giving the following indi gnant reprobation of the particular transactions , and of thc system tliat leads to them , from the Times of Thurs . day : —

      Notwithstanding the horrors and atrocities to which _, the Poor Law has given birth / we could not have believed it possible that even the measure wo have named could have led to anything so utterly revolting as thc facts stated in our paper of yesterday to have occurred in the union workhouse at Andover . A short time before tlie prorogation ofl _' arliament Mr . Waklcy asked the Home Secretary if he had heard " that the paupers of a union in Hampshire were employed in crushing bones , and that while so employed they were engaged in quarrelling with each other for the bones , in extracting marrow fnnri them , and in gnawing oil ' tlie meat from the extremities . " To this question Sir James Graham replied

      that lie had heard nothing ofthe sort , and lie further went on to say , that ¦ ' if the facts alleged _wei'O true , he was quite satisfied that they would have been represented to liim . " "lie could not believe that such an abuse existed , for , in that case , he would have heard of it . " Here the matter might have ended , had not Mr . Wakley suggested to the Home Secretary that it was his duty , to . make inquiry into thc subject ; and this inquiry having been made , tlie statement ofthe hon . member for Finsbury _| is nut simply confirmed ,- but the facts are found to be even more horrible than he himself was at tlie time conscious of . It appears , from tlie investigation which has taken placo into

      this truly shocking affair , that the pauners arc employed in crushing bones collected irom various sources , including frequently tlie bones of hoises as well as of other animals , and " occasionally" some from churchyards .. Now , we admit tiiat the supposi . tion of human beings having been starved into such " a state of brutal degradation that they could seek to satisfy the cravings of hunger from such a ' disgusting source is altogether past belief , and if we had not the evidence of the fact we could not have considered it possible . Wc have read of nothing in thc accounts of sieges or shipwrecks , nor even in imaginative descriptions ofthe worst horrors which these calamities entail , that can be compared with the dreadful truth

      that has just been brought to light at Andover . Though we cannot help turning with loathing from the contemplation of an act so sickening as that to which the paupers have at this place been driven , we must feel the greatest pity for the wretches whose very nature has been thus brutalized by the system on which the Poor Law of this country is administered . They niust have been ground down by hunger to » condition as low as that of the very dogs , for we have it in the words ofthe paupers themselves that they are " ready to fight over the bones , " and , ¦ ' as soon as one sees a good bone which is unobserved hy thcrest , lie contrives to steal it away , " and hides it till lie gets an opportunity . of gnawing it . Mr . Mnnday , ono

      ot the guardians , and a borough magistrate , to whose energy and perseverance the inquiry that has been made is owing , sent for one of the bones that had been hidden in the way described , and found it to bo in an offensive state , which our readers will understand without our disgusting them by the use of plainer language . Wc have lately had occasion to refer to the atrc _. cities committed by the French in Algeria , but our neighbours may indeed retaliate upon us by pointing to the inhuman barbarities that our Poor Law practices . Although # the atrocity of , Pclissier wsu : horrible enough , it may well be said thattiic destruction of life , is not so great an , injury as the . degrading man literally to the level of the brute , which has been the result of the Poor Law at

      Andover . It , is incumbent ) en all who are concerned for the honour of their country , to repudiate a , system which must , become a national disgrace when it leads to such facts as . those we have been speaking of ., ; , What must the sufferings of these wretched persons have been before they were driven , to an act for which in . no accounts of wars or famines ,-sieges or shipwrecks—facts or fiction , —in nothing which we . have heard or read , have wc ever met with a parallel ? ... Even the conduct of Pclissier has had one precedent supplied by a countryman of his own ; but the reduction of human beings by starvation to such a degraded state that , they have been ready to light forthe . boncs ] of animals—some _brought even from churchyards—is an offence that stands alone , and the Poor Law is the only law that could have given rise to it .

      The Andover case cannot rest where it is ,,-and though Sir James Graham omitted to make any allusion to the result of the inquiry , which he must have known before Parliament was prorogued , public opinion will pronounce itself on a matter respecting which the Home Secretary preferred remaining silent .

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      G . Cavili ,, Sheffield . —Such rumours as he speaks of are _utterly without foundation ; and we' trust he will not be injured thereby . The reason why he did not receive his Stars in proper time lay entirely with us , as was explained to him in a letter posted previous to our receiving his . To several other agents who have written us , we reply , that after using every passible exertion , we could not complete their orders in time , from a defeet in the machinery . Communicatioss yon the York Chartists _mustbaaddressed to George Jefferson , YYilson ' _s-yard , Layertliorp , York .

      SAII . OH 6 ' Wrongs . —The " _Cbimpi . vc" _Sistem . —Ma . Editor , —Your paper , a few weeks ago , contained an article respecting the sailors and their wrongs : allow me now to say that one of the wrongs complained of has lately arrested the attention of the legislature , who have passed a law to prevent crimping . As a number of your readers may not be aware what " crimping" is , it will not be out of _plase to offer a f . w observations on the subject . A sailor , when out of employment , is like a fish out of water , ( strange fish , Jack!)— lie know snot where to go , or what to do—he meets a Jew , or often aGentihs sloy > sc \\ er , -who asks Jack does he want n ship ? "Yes , " says he . " Then come with ins and 1 will get you one . " The rascal takes Jack home , gives him a glass of whiskey ; opium , and i'i 7 r / o 7 , * and very

      speedily Jack is asleep . The " crimp , " or slopseller , _theni'uns oft' and speaks to a captain in want ' of a crew—he bargains to bring the men on board when he ( the master ) wants them . The Jew then gets as many promissory notes as the captain wan tshands—these will be cashed to the amount of £ 2 5 s . or £ 2 10 k . each note . If the sailor goes in the ship , the Jew , or " shipping master , " or " crimp , " its all the same , then gives Jack another dose of whiskey , opium , and vitriol , a shoddy jacket , manufactured on purpose . out of devil ' s dust , a plug of contraband tobacco , an old pair of trousers , left by some poor sailor , who , when going away , cOuU not jiud them ; and , thus supplied , poor Jack is " sent oil to the ship , The " crimp" keeps tlie advance '' note , and draws the wages of the sailor , three days after

      he has sailed away , that is , one' month ' s advance note . Another villanous system is , a number of ' would-be smart honest men , to all appearance ' " gentlemen , " keep what they term " shipping ollices . " The more sober portion of the sailors go there to seek for employment , because tho shipmasters patronise these " crimps . " Jack applies : he is told y _, s—told he can get employment with Captain So-and-so , but _anolta ' _saihr has promised to give him ( the crimp ) Us . for O'C berth , but if he will give a pound he shall have it . Tlie poor fellow , perhaps with a family of _youn-- children at home crying for bread , lias to sell or pledge some article of furniture to satisfy the cupidity of this scoundrel _, the act lately passed is to prevent the fee being paid by the seamen to a " crimp" or other person ; the fee must be

      paid by the captain ov owner of the ship , and any master or owner of a ship going to any other than a licensed oj ? icc shall pay £ 20 for every sailor so shipped ; and any office-keeper , licensed or not , known to accept or charge directly or indirectl y , any fee , shall beguihj of a misdemeanour under a penalty of fine and imprisonment . Thus , by looking after their own rights , we imd the sailors are beginning to be able to steer clear of their old" friends '' in Itatcliffe-highway . We trust that the more sober part of the seamen will spend their time and money _Vetter than in attending the Cat and iiddle _. or being gulled by the "landlady ' s daughter , ' ' who is generall y a common prostitute * Jack never dreams of the rascality of the _landmarks until he is actually done for . Let him live and learn . —Respecthilly , J . Fildes ,

      J . H . Jones , _Manchestbh Thanks for "The _Star-.-: spangled . Banner . " The , articles on " Agricultural Chemistry , " published in the Star , are not contained in a . separate publication . Th _* only way in which his friend could prove the death of his father in the United States , would be by some on j going o \ er then ' , _» ni collecting the proofs . C . J . —Sot any particular width— W t ? ic _USC to _* _' _* _' ' highways are put require that they bo wide eiioUo " w accommodate the traffic over them II . _IUlmfortii , MANcnESTiR . _-Tlmnks for _)„' P _^ \\ e havo made use of . some ' _portion of it a » d sliaU use the remainder next week . _, ' . J . 11 ., _ItoTUtitu AM . ~ We havo not the means ' of refci _^" at hand to answer big . questions with ' certain tv . Jacob TausT . —Letter T . _nwt n cek . Can He let us ha' * Uttw II . b y Thursday ? _, .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 16, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_16081845/page/4/