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THE NORTHERN STAR . D « antt . 7 , _ 1880 _^ — ¦ ¦ -=== "" _.- - _.. ' -Z—Z _^ Z ; : r _^ _T _^ _rrZ _.... _^ OVer the \ _}^ yj _™ ' Sovereignty' —The Fraternity of Nations !
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_.- Second Lecture . CANTERBURY versus ROME , AND _CUUISTIASITY IN RELATION TO BOTII .
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_fiALDWELL ' S NEW , SPACIOUS ' \ J A"Ni > ELEGANT ASSEMttLY UOOMS , Bean Stbeet , Souo . Mr . Caldwell avails himself of this opportunity of retuniin" his grateful _acknmvleilsrments to bis rations , Pupil- * , and the Pnblic lor thc liberal support they have hitherto honoured him with , and begs most respectfully to aniK . unce tliat his Extensive Premises have been entirely rebuilt , under tlie superintendance of an eminent Architect , and arc now replete with the most scrupulous regard to accomodation and comfort , which artistic skill , combined with experience , could _suggest . Tlie whole comprehending _, it is presumed , the _cltef-d ' ouvre Tcrpsichorean Establishment at the West-end , which
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TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Majestu , Queen Victoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert .
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THE LONDON CO-OPERATIVE STORES are now opened at 76 , Chablotie Stbeet , Fitzeox Sqcabe , In connexion with the Society for Promoting Working Men ' s Associations .
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BEAUTIFUL HAIR , WHISKERS , EYEBROWS , & o , may be , with certainty , obtained by using a very small portion of ROSALIE COUPELLE'S PARISIAN POMADE every morning , instead of any oil or other preparation . A fertuight ' s use will , in most instance ? , show its surprising properties in producing and curling Whiskers , Hair , Sic , at any age . from whatever cause deficient ; as abo checking greyness , < tc . Sent free by post , with instructions , & c ., on receipt of twenty-four postage Btamps _, by Miss COUPELLE , 35 fclyplace , Holborn , London , who may be consulted on these matters daily , from two till five .
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_ - _.. -Z—Z _^ Z ; : Education for the Millions , THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED , \ f 0 . XXIX . OF " THE _NATIONAL _INSTMCTGPi . "
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PRICE ONE PENNY . The object ofthe Proprietor , Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., M . P ., ia to place within the reach of the poorest classes that Political and Social Information of whicli they are at present deprived by the Government " Taxes on Knowledge . " SIXTEEN LARGE OCTAVO PAGES , Price One Penny . CONTENTS OF No . XXIX . New Series of the National Instructor . Simon Konarski , the Polish Patriot . The Student of St . Petersburg . ( Continued . ) Life and Adventures of Feargus O'Connor . Science and History for the People ; Astronomy _, llcnewal of the Agitation for an efficient Factory Bill . Gleanings .
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' Liberty—Equality—fraternity . ' EARLY NEXT FEBRUARY IVILL * BE PUBLISHED The First Number of 'THE PEOPLE . ' * We'll _striiggte on till all he won thc good God has de . _signed . The Empire of the People—the Monarchy of Mind . ' A NEWSPAPER established b y private IA individuals is manifestly inadequate to the attainment of any great National object . ' Itis , ' says a distinguished Irish writer , ' in many particulars defective , in many others injurious , and in sonic dangerous , unsafe , and untrustworthy ; it may be boujjtit or bartered ; it may be traded with and _trafficked on ; it may be corrupted , conquered , or intimidated , and oftlrs no guarantee for firmntss , independence , or honesty . "—Influenced by these considerations , : i number of Irishmen—deepl y interested in the welfare of their Native Land—have resolved on the establishment of a National Weekly Journal , whieh , founded by the People , will be alone responsible to tbem , and will have for its immediate aim nnd object the uncompromising advocacy of their rights—their interestsand their liberty .
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NATIONAL _CHAItTEll ASSOCIATION . Office , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . THE PRO VISIONAL COMMITTEE A hereby announce the following meetings : — On Sunday Evening next meetings will bs held at the Rock T & vern , Lisson-grove—Princess Iloyal , Circus-street , Marylebone—King and Queen , Foley-street , Portlandplace— "Bricklayers' Arms , Tonbridge-street , New-road—City Hall , 26 , Golden-lane , Barbican- Whittington and Cat , Church-row . Bethnal Green—Crown and Anchor , Cheshirestreet , Waterloo Town—and Globe and Friends , Morganstreet , _Commerclalroad-east—New Eastern Literary and and Scientific Institution , Morpeth-street , Green street ,
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DELEGATE MEETING . A Delegate Meeting , of the Halifax District of the National Charter Association , will be held at Nichol's Temperance Hotel , Broad-street , Halifax , on Sunday , tlie 15 th day of December , 1850 , to take into consideration the best means to be adopted to re-organise the district , when the following places are requested to send delegates : — Halifax , _Midj-ley , Miscenden , Stanes , Ovenden , Queenshead , Warley , Sowerhy , Eiland , Bradshaw-lanc , Bailiffbridge , "Wheatley , Lordship , Nortliawram , Hlingworth Moor , Cold Harber , and _Stninlnnd . Chair to be taken at two o ' clock p . m . —Unun Hinciicliffe , Sec ,
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MATRIMONY MADE EASY ; OR HOW TO WItf A LOVER . Miss ELLEN DAWSON will send free to any address , on receiptof thirteen postage stamps , plain directions to enable Ladies or Gentlemen to win the affections of as many of the opposite sex as their hearts may desire . The proposal is simple , and so captivating nnd enthralling that all may be married , imepectire of age , appearance or position ; and last , though not least , it can be arranged with such ease and delicacy that detection is impossible .
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r _^ _T _^ _rrZ _..,.. _^ Thc People ' s Sovereignty . ' —The Fraternity of Nations ! The Rights of Labour!—Absolute Freedom of Opinion ! Read the new weekly _publication , The 17 RIEND OP THE PEOPLE , Jj Edited by G . _Juius _IlAKNtY . PRICE ONE PENNY . Will be published also in Monthly Parts . £ _&* For two postage-stamps a copy will be sent , post free , to any part of the United Kingdom . London : Published by S . Y . Collins , 113 , Fleet-street , and to be had ( on order ) of all booksellers and _news-iiRonts .
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Just Published . Price Twopence . DO NOT BE DUPED : A Letter Of Counsel to tbe Labouring Classes , by the Writer of' A Voice ntosi tub Noutii . ' _Kave , Hlackett-strcet , Newcastle , and all Booksellers .
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NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS . Now ready for delivery with the Northern Star , an authentic , highly finished , and beautiful STEEL ENGRAVING , TWO FEET LONG , From the contractors' ( Fox and Henderson ' s ) own Drawing of tlio CETSTAI PALACE : OR GREAT BUILDING IN HYDE PARK POK The Grand Industrial Exhibition of 1851 . No expense has been spared in obtaining a correct and finished Engraving of this
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The Land Question. Nothing Is More Stran...
THE LAND QUESTION . Nothing is more strange than the different aspect of the same question , when presented to the public by different parties . Two or three years since , there was not a single newspaper belonging to the Free Trade , party that did not cry down the National Land Company as essentially uusound in principle , and certain to bo mischievous in practice . Mr . O'Connor had not onl y to contend against party hostility in Parliament , and legal
obstructions created by Government officials , but also against a strong public opinion among the middle and upper classes , arising out of the virulent and continuous attacks of the Press . Those agencies ultimately effected the defeat of the meritorious objects proposed to be secured by that Company , Bitterly opposed by the Government , the Press , and the wealthy cbsses , doubt , dissension , and defection crept in amongst the members ; and then Mr . O'Connor was blamed for not realising the results wliich this combination of hostile elements alone prevented .
The National Land Company sought to combine Social with Political emancipation for the toiling masses . It pointed to the land as the only secure and permanent basis on which national freedom , independence , and prosperity could be placed , and asked the people to use the means at their own command , for the purpose of securing those great and important blessings . The principle on which the Society was formed was simply this;—In
the present state of Land tenure in this country , it is next to impossible for a poor man to become the owner of a small portion of land . The plan of the Society was for a number of persons to combine for that purpose , purchase a large estate at the wholesale price , by their united capital , and then apportion it among the members retail , in such quantities as might be agreed upon atthe original cost , with the addition of legal and actual costs alone ,
Surely there was nothing in this of itself to . call forth the vituperation , invective , and denunciation which was so liberally bestowed upon it . Wh y was it so assailed then ? Because , and only because , the movement was avowedly connected with Chartism . In this world "the rose , " when called b y any other name , "does not" smell as sweet . " Partly by the unscrupulous calumnies of a bigotted and venal Press ; partly by the
ignorance , indiscretion , and faults of some of the Chartists themselves , Chartism had fallen into ' bad repute . All the - well-to-do '' people in the country asked themselves , " Can anything good come out of Nazareth ? " the moment they heard a measure of any kind was connected with Chartism . Hence the plans of the Land Company were not tried by the public on their own merits , but on the real , or supposed demerits , of those who proposed them .
For the time being the prejudice , the ignorance , the selfishness , and the legal obstacles which had to be encountered , have succeeded fo preventing the realisation of these plana . We trust they will yet be revived , improved by the experience of the past , and placed upon such a basis , as will secure ample protection and justice to all who may embark in them . If this is not the case it will be from no want of imitators . We briefly referred , last week , to the Conference o ! the National Freehold Land Societies , held at Birmingham _^ _ao an illustration of the old adage , "That one man may Bteal a sheep with unpunity , while
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another will get hanged for looking over the hedge . " Since then the annual meeting of the members has been held in London , and a report read , from which it appears that the receipts up to + . he present time have been £ 21 , 257 10 s . 10 ; while fourteen estates have been purchased , entailing liabilities to the amount of £ 62 , 000 . The report , after stating other details , proceeded to show the pecuniary , commercial , and social advantages whicli were certain to be derived from tho plans of the Society ; and
Concluded by saying : — '"Upon the intrinsic soundness of it _* i commercial principles , then , and upon tho importance and certainty of tho social and political _advantages which it proffers , this association "now founds its calculations of success , and the directors do not doubt that , even if the franchise were granted at once to every man in the kingdom , th Rational Freehold Land Society would continue its triumphant success . " Sir Joshua Walmsley , the president o the Society , forcibly followed this up in his speech . He said : —
I see in this movement the happy means of doing much in combination , with other movements , to hasten tho enfranchisement © f tlio masses , and to promote tlie progress of virtue , of knowledge , and of self government . You have started upon sound principles ; you ave acling upon the proverb , that " many a little will make a , mickle : " " that if you will tako care of tlio penco , tho pounds willl take care of themselves . " You . iroactinj ; on the principle ,
that what cannot be done by ono man , when he is isolated trom his fellows , may be done for each , by many combining for mutual advantage , upon laws of equity and mutual profit . You are working out the problem of the power of associated effort . There is nothing new , still less anything Utopian in this . You are but giving a new application to an old principle . You are bub doing that willingly and voluntarily which has been dono a thousand times by compulsion and constraint .
After referring to several notable instances of ancient and modern association , and their gigantic results , Sir Joshua continued : ~ I like this movement for the spirit of independence which it begets and fosters in the minds of its members . What is to be done they undertake and do themselves , They want no patrons—they ask no alms , prefer no petitions—they assume no attitude of humility—they make up their own minds—they subscribe their own money—they buy their own estates—they award their own allotments , and they give their own and not a master's vote . From the entrance fee to tho secretary to the
casting vote afc the county election—all is free , spontaneous , and independent . I like this movement for the change it makes in the habits and thoughts of the once heedless and unthrifty artisan _, lt teaches him the value of money ; ifc enables him to measure tho worth of his labour ; it puts a worthy and stimulating object before him ; it holds out a twofold prize at tho end of his course —the freehold of an Englishman and the franchsc of a Briton . It weans him . in tho meantime from evil ways and pernicious indulgences , and when he gets'his title deeds , he is not only a freeholder and a voter , but has a freehold in his mind worth them both . I like this movement for its truly conservative tendency . The very best of all ways to make a man respect the property of his _neighbour ,
is to induce him to obtain some property for himself . The wise master , if he wishes to secure the best services of a valued assistant , gives him an interest in tho concern . On this well-known principle , the strongest link to bind a man to bis native soil is to give him , or lead liim to get a portion of it for himself . Do you think if a million of artisans were freeholders , we need fear anything from invasion ? Do you not think that an army of freeholders would be quiet as good a safeguard as a standing army , or the Channel fleet ? Do you think a continental foe , if we had one , would not say to himself , * ' We had better not go to England , for there ave a millien of freeholders on that island , who will fight as stoutly for their allotments as the Duke of _Northumberland for Alnwick Castle , and all the broad lands of the Percies . "
Upon whicli the " Morning Chronicle ' remarks : — When we hear Sir Joshua Walmsley ' s glowing description of tho unequalled political and social advantages of manufacturing a million of little freeholders , wo involuntarily recollect that the present project is not tho first politic * JLand Scheme which this generation has witnessed , and that we havo heard it all before from Mr . Feargus O'Connor .
Quite true . All this has been " heard before from Mr . Feabgus O'Connor . " There is scarcely a single argument used by any advocate of the Freehold Society which has not been previously urged in support of the Land Company ; but that which now elicits cheers in the London Tavern from audiences arrayed in good broad cloth , was sneered at , derided and vilified , when addressed to Chartists . Mr . _Cobdek , himself , has become an ardent advocate of the system . He said , at this
very meeting , " That it was indeed a crying evil , that laud in this country had been suffered to accumulate into " huge * masses , and he was prepared to assert , as far as in him lay , to have the real property of the country more widely distributed . " The declaration elicited " loud cheers . " It would appear , therefore , that with the usual fate of pioneers , the Laud Company has only been a little before its time . Others are comin g in to gather the harvest , for which it broke up the ground and sowe ;? . the seed .
One of the great arguments of the politicoeconomical press , however , against this " wide diffusion of landed property , " to promote which Mr . Cobden is now prepared to do his utmost , was that the small freeholders would be very little better than paupers . The objection seems to have little weight with the member for the West Riding . He says , indeed , that " on the continent it is by no means uncommon to Bee a man walking about in
wooden shoes , stuffed with hay , to prevent them falling off , and yet that man would be found to be a freeholder . " But , because he was thus badl y shod , did Mr . Cobden say that therefore a freehold was a bad thing ? By no means . On the contrary , he has learned to look beneath appearances , and to know that much substantial comfort , aud , above all , of genuine independence , may be presented under a plain and unpretending exterior .
The real effect of these small continental holdings on tho minds , morals , and domestic condition of the people , is very graphically described b y one of the « Special Correspondents " of the " Morning Chronicle , " who is now travelling in France for the purpose of examining and reportin g upon the industrial system of that country . In the course of his rambles , he met with an Irishman , who was settled m a small town as a thriving shophad been
keeper He man y years in the country , and spoke in high terms of the thrifty , prudent , and industrious habits of the workingpeople around him . Honesty ia one great feature oftheir character . He had occasionally lost money by English customers of the better class who dealt with him , but never by the poor French people ; and he thus forcibl y points out the means which en . ablo them to keep out of debt , and maintain that mental independence which is one of tho most important elements of true freedom : — . Ter
rhJm fi ? 10 perty _** a m great help to _tt _' iJ _^ i _^ ? , W folks _Mahout who _™™ i , _? , ? J ° V - ° P atohe of freeholds . If ono member of a family has not , the other has . The money they get out of them is no fortune to bo _suie , but it always helps , and it is a great matter tor a working man to have something , however small , oyer and above his daily toil , to fall back upon . It g very easy to invest a good lump of money m England , but it is not so easy to invest a p _^ a . on ?* The P 00 r man _wl _» o has saved £ 20 or _ASO hardly knows what to do with it . There ' s your saving banks , to be _sure—nnda niee mess you seem to be making with them—look at my own country —but saving banks give no such inducement to a man to save as land does . When you ' ve got your own little estate your money is safo . The Lind
can t run away nor lose its value . You mav build your house upon it . * most folks hereabouts do ami there you aro rent free , and comfortable with V _3 trade , for the rest of your days . Oh £ J 1 *?™ dependence in this state of things that the poor o ? eZ land can never know . And then if 'J _^ n .. -J 9 somebod y , when he can _na & ZV _^ a" % Hank of his latter days _xcithSthlT 9 d md houseaswell . Besides , _tLTfitodSV _^ _^ or the corn field is before all _Z . i , tbe y \ _^ _dustrious sober man _inpL" _T _£ ' 7 * owner ; there ' s _nothfirSdi _< Wl l _$ ni and it ' s that feeC tfikt « L _« ffioulfc ab _. out lfc no _*' strive for it . Th 7 e _^ Z _^ _X _£ _" 13 * to _working _W-l _™ a v . i » y a neighbour of mine , wowing card . _^ _^^ _> _^ _^ >
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savings to buy land , who would le spending then i » England ; and that , just because it seems a com mon and practicable thing for men in his class t « get land here , whereas it ' s a very uncommon am ? almost impracticable thing in England . In order to show the Hibernian shopkeeper that the people of England were turning their attention to the Land Q . _uestion , the " _Correg . pondent'' informed him , that societies were formed for the purchase of freeholds . But the _™ 2 > _^ t would le spending them in
former looked with doubt ou the c apabilities of societies . He would have it an individual affair . "To work for good , " said he , " the system must be a part of the very daily _livoa and thoughts of the people . Working men don ' t require societies or companies to buy their dinners or their coats , wh y should they to buy their land ? Here the soil is commonly bought and sold , and there is no long lawyers work of conveyances in the matter .
Thelast sentence explains the reason why " societies and companies" are indispensable in this country . Here " the soil" is not " commonl y bought and sold "—cannot be so ; and "tho long lawyers' work of conveyances " which would double the price ofa small freehold were it obtainable , becomes , comparativel y a light burden , when shared among a few thousand persons . The Times and Chronicle however , unite in predicting a fearful future for the Freehold Societies , from the state of the law in this country . The former admits all the economical and social benefits of small
freeholds , but points , with terrible si gnificance , to the laws of partnership , and tho portals of the Chancery Court . If , indeed , any of these societies were once to enter them , upon any occasion whatever , it would be all over with them . The best course for every man connected with them , who had _anything to lose would be to betake himself forthwith to New York , where they have entirely abolished tiie Chancery Court , and , wonderful to relate , find that the sun sets and rises as usual—that crops ripen—houses and factories aro not sapped at the foundation , and all the business of life is transacted with as much security and
success as ever . Until we come to something like the same conclusion in this country , no society whatever , which aims afc benefiting the working classes by meaDS of the co-operation of its numbers , and the application oftheir combined small savings for their common well-being , will be safe . They will be liable , at every turn , to be preyed upon by dishonest , discontented , . or scheming members ; without
knowing it , they may , afc every step , involva themselves in legal penalties , and be thus placed at the mercy of any sharp practitioner at law who may choose to take advantage of their position . A thorough and sweeping reform of the law , therefore , becomes an imperative necessit y ; and we shall be happy to see a fellow-feeling on this important question , uniting men of all sections of the Movement Party , in pressing it on tho attention of the Legislature .
We have preferred , in these cursory remarks , to present the principle at issue ' , rather than dwell upon the course which has been pursued towards the Society wliich first placed ifc before the public , and gave it such prominence aud practical bearing . But we cannot conclude without earnestly directing the attention of all parties to the general iu _° ference that must be drawn from these facts ,
Is it not a shame and disgrace , that the man to whose individual exertions , more than to any one now living , is owing the creation of a public opinion on this subject , should be allowed to struggle against legalised injustice almost single hauded ? Whatever differences of detail there may be between the Freehold and tho Land Societies , they are identical in principle , and their modus operandi , if not precisely similar , is , as nearly as possible , the
same . Why should Mr . O'Connor be vilified , libelled , and saddled with heavy pecuniary burdens , for doing that which wins for Mr . _Cobdex eulogy , enthusiasm , applause , and popular support ? A heavy indictment will lay against the Chartists and the members of the Land Company , if they do not come forward and taka their fair share of these burdens . The
progress ofthe Land Movement is sufficient to show that they were right from the commencement . Whatever else was defective , the principle on whicli they started was a sound one . Experience would , in due time , have enabled them to rectify any errors into which they might have fallen at first , and for which errors no individual , who entered upon an untried experiment , could be held personally responsible .
Though temporarily beaten down by the perversion of the Press , and the legal tribunals of the country , the Land Company is virtually victorious . Its principles and objects are openly ado pted as sound in themselves , and fraught with political and social advantages to the Community . The popular feeling in favour of destroying that most pernicious monopol ythe monopol y of the soil—must grow in
strength and power until God ' s gift to all men will be made free to all . In commencing a practical movement tending in that direction , Mr . O'Connor and the Land Company have been benefactors to all classes ; and if the membera will but put away their petty divisions , and once more rally around him , they may yet secure the great and glorious object they had in view .
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A BOSTON WELCOME . Fifteen years ago , George Thompson , the eloquent member for the Tower Hamlets was compelled to fly from the United States ' for fear of losing his life . The crime which excited popular fury against him ina "free Republic" was his teaching the doctrine , that all men are by nature free and equal ! It ia true that tho American Constitution declares the same truth , but tho Americans hava
chosen to read it with an interpretation ot their own . They affirm , " that all meu are by nature free and equal , except niggers . " George _Tuompson differed with them on that point—he wished to include •' niggers ;" whereupon they get up a tall gallows before his bed-room window one night , and threatened to hang him thereupon , if he persisted in teaching the monstrous and vile doctrine , thafc '' niggers , '' with black skins and wooll y heads ,
were human beings . Remembering that "Lynchlaw" ia _oua of the recognised , though impromptu modea of carrying out the behests of "the Sovereign People * " in the States , Mr . Thompson thoug ht it the better part of-valour to " cheat the gallows" for that time , at least , of a subject . He may have also said , to himself , in the words of the old couplet , " He that fights and runs away May live to fight another
day "and have cherished the hope , that an opportunity might yet be offered him of lifting up Ins voice in the States against the gigantic wrong which slavery perpetrates upon ouc common humanity . Whether he did so or not , at that period , time has brought it to pass . Acting upon tho invitation of the party that has so bravely and _conjistentl y fought the battle of Abolition , Mr . Thompson , a short time ago , left thia country for a second visit . He and his friends ,
no doubt , imagined that the fifteen years which had elapsed since hw last visit had also improved public opinion , and that this time , at least , ho -would have a chance of a fair hearing . We are told of the immense and unprecedented progress of the United States in commerce , manufactures * , agriculture , rail * roads , harbours , _canalu , and all the material aspeots of civilisation ; but that progress , ap « parently , does- not include opinion . Mr * Thompson ' s reception in tbe Principal Hall of what is termed the American Athew _** wtf
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 7, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_07121850/page/4/
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