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LONDON, TUESDAY, EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1852.

r" PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY COM-
PANY.—Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each.—
')eposit, 21. 2s. per Shire.
Under the appnval and support of the following, amongst other
landowners and gentlemen locally interested in the counties of
surrey, Ham,,.thire, and Sussex.
The Earl of Winterton, Shillinglee Park, Sussex.
Viscount Monck. M.P., Portsmouth.
The Mayor of Portsmouth.
John Deverell, Esq., Peubrook Park.
Sir Henry John Leeke, West Leigh.
William J. Evelyn, Esq., M P. for West Surrey.
Sir William 0. Hylton Jolliffe, Bart., M.P.
The Mayor of Peterstield.
John Bonham Carter, Esq., M.P.
J. H. Waddington, Esq., Langrish.
Rear-Admiral Sir Phipps Hornby, Little Oreen, qtrecx.
The Hon. J. J. Carnegie, Fair Oak, Petersfield.
Major Mundy, Hollybank.
Colonel Hugonin, Nurstead.
Jmeph Martineau, Esq., Basing Park.
The Rev. William Legge.
Colonel Charles Wyndham, Rogate Lodge.
Sir Charles Taylor, Bart.. Hollycomb.
Sir Archibald Keppel Macdonald, Bart., Woolmer Lodge.
Thomas Butler, Esq., Downiands.

DIRECTORS.
Charles Henry Blake, Esq., 15, Devonshire-place,
Major Butler. Liphook.
William Eldridge Butler, Esq., Le Court, near Petersfield.
11. Bonham Carter, Esq., 6, Whitehall, and Petersfleld.
The Hon. Thomas William Gage, Westbury, near Petersfleld.
Fielder King, E q., Buriton.
Henry Lacy, Esq., Petersfleld, Banker.
Ross D. Mangles, Esq., M.P.. Woodbridge, Guildford.
W. Barron Mew, Esq., Newport, Isle of Wight, brewer.
Francis Mowatt, Esq , Petersfleld, and Devonshire-place, London.
Thomas Ellis Owen, Esq., Dover Court, Sonthsea.
Edward John Scott, Esq., Portsmouth.
John Stewart, Esq , Director of the London and Westminster
Bank.
Admiral Sir James Stirling, Belmont, Havant.
ENGINEERS.—Messrs. Locke and Errington.

BANKERS.
The London and Westminster Bank, London.
Messrs. Grant, Gilman, and Long, Portsmouth.
The London and County Bank, Petersfield.
The West Surrey Bank, Guildford and Godalming.
SOLICITORS.—Messrs. Roy, London.
SECRETARY.—AIexander E. Lloyd, Esq., pro tem.
OFFICES.-37, Great George-street, Westminster.
PROSPECTUS.
It is intended to construct a Railway between Godalming and
Havant, 32 miles in length, to afford a more direct and a cheaper
communication between London and Portsmouth, as well as Railway
accommodation generally to the large extent of unopened country
through which it will pass.
The deposit of plans and sections, and all other necessary steps,
have been taken with a view to an application for an Act of Incor-
poration during the present Session of Parliament.
The line will commence at the end of the Godalming Branch of
the South-Western Railway, and will pass the towns of Godalming,
Haslemere, and Petersfield, and generally following the route of the
Direct Portsmouth Railway as sanctioned by Parliament in 1546, to
Havant, it will there unite with the Coast Line of the Brighton Corn-
rany, and the Fareham Extension Line of the South-Western Com-
pany, and proceed thence directly to the town and harbour of Ports-
mouth.
The landowners and others locally interested in the district have
concurred in promoting this measure, and have, to the extent of
neat ly three-fourths of the length of the line, signed agreements for
the sale of their land at its mere agricultural value, and in several
instances have agreed to take the company's shares in payment.
The connexion with the South-Eastern Railway, near Godalming,
will secure to the proposed line the advantage of a second entrance
into and exit from London, the one to the west end, and the other
to the heart of the City, establishing by the same means also a
direct communication, and with a great saving in distance, between
the metropolis, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, Reigate, and the
South-eastern Line generally, and Guildford, Portsmouth and the
Isle of Wight, as well as with all the intervening country.
The line will effect all the objects contemplated by the Direct
Portsmouth Act of 1846, but at the reduced cost of 400,0001. now,
instead of 1,500,010/. then required.
It has been also further greatly improved by a late survey made
under the directions of Messrs. Locke and Errington, by which it
will not only be materially shortened, but three out of the four most
serious and highly objectionable tunnels in the forme: plans have
been entirely got rid of in the present, and the fourth, near Peters-
field, reduced to one-third its length.
To avoid all risk and uncertainty, however, on these essential
points, the promoters have entered into a provisional contract with
perfectly responsible parties, for the completion of the entire line
from Godalming to Havant, for the extremely moderate sum of
372,0001., or 12,000/. per mile. including the clst of land, rails, sta-
tions, and all other necessaries, excepting only the locomotive plant;
and further, the same parties have come under a formal and binding
engagement to take a lease, if required, of the line when completed,
for the first five years. at a net minimum rental of 4 per cent. per
annum, with ore-halt of the profits beyond that amount.
Parliament having already, in 1846, sanctioned this line now pro-
posed to be constructed, its promoters cannot believe that any se-
rious or effective opposition can be again offered to it.
To sum up, it may be safely asserted that the undertaking holds
out advantages to subscribers and the public generally that have
rarely yet been offered by any other railway project, viz. :
, It will afford the most direct, and by far the cheanest route be-
tween London and Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, being the shorter
by twenty-two miles than either of the two existing lines, and being
contracted tor at 12,0001. a mile, in lieu of about four times that a-
mount expended on the Brighton and South-Westernlines,it will have,
through the South-eastern, from Godalming, a double entrance into
London ; from which it follows, almost as a matter of course, that it
will command the entire traffic of the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth,
on terms that, while highly remunerative to its proprietary, mus
make competition on the part of its rivals hopelev, if not impos 1-
t
ble, Further, the whole cost of the entire works and material has
been undertaken, by respectable contractors, for a specific and fixed
sum ; thus freeing the calculations and estimates of the engineers
from all doubt and uncertainty. And, finally, the Shareholders will
have the power of accepting or not, at their option, the offer of a
lease of the line when completed, for five years, at a minimum rate
of 4 per cent. interest on their capital, with half the profits beyond,
with the interim payment also of 4 per cent. on the deposit and calls
during the construction of the line. In the event of the Act of Par-
liament not being obtained the expenses will be limited to 45. per
share, and the balance will be returned to the shareholders.
Below are given the particulars of the lengths of the different
Lines, together with the existing population and traffic, referred to.
London to Portsmouth by Brighton Railway . • . 95 lace
I/ hy South-Western . . .94
by proposed Godalming and Ha-
vant line . . • . . 73
91 by South-Eastern via Godalming . 81
Capital expended on South Western Railway . . £8,614,814
„„ on Brighton and South Coast . . 7,200,000
to be expended on proposed single line
from Godalming to Havant . •
Population of Portsmouth • • •
Isle of Wight . • • •
Existing Through Traffic from those two
sources only, exclusive of all Local Traffic £150,000 per annum.
The following is a statement given by the Directors at the last
meeting of the London and South Western Railway Compsn y of
the comparative number of passengers booked during the past half
year at the principal stations on their line :
23,000
Dorchester
Salisbury . ..... 31,000
Portsmouth and Gosport . • . 188,000
126,000
Southampton • • • • •
Winchester . . • • - 52,000
Basingstoke • • • . • 34,000
Applications for the Company's Shares remaining undisposed of,
may be made to Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son, Stockbrokers,
59, Lothbury, London ; to the Solicitors, Messrs. R. and W. G. Roy,
4, Lothbury. and 37, Great George-street, London ; or, to Thom
essrs.
as
Mellersh, Esq., Godalming;Havant;
G. J. Parson, Esq , Haslemere
Mitchell and Minty, Petersileld ; C. J. Longcroft. Esq., M
the London and Westminster Bank, London; the West Surrey
Bank,
Gafford and Godalming ; the London and County Bank, Peters-
field ; and Messrs. Grant, Gillman, and Long, Bankers, Portsmouth;
Ln the following form :

400,000
70,000
50,000

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Portsmouth Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of
201. each, or such smaller number as you may think proper, in the
above Company ; and I undertake to accept such shares, and to pay
the deposit thereon, and to execute the subscribers' agreement and
sr bscription contract when required.
Dated this day of
Profession or Business...
Address
Reference ..... • • • • • •
Offices, 37, Great George-street, Westminster, Dec., 1852.

, 1852.

THE PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY.-
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That NO APPLICATIONS
for SHARES will be received atter FRIDAY next, the 24th inst.
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James Harmer, Esq.... ••••• • • • • • ..... 5 0 0
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Arnold Rogers, Esq. •••••••• . • • • • • •• 5 5 0
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Richard Dawson, Esq., M•D• •••• • • " • . 50 0
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Edward Moorman, Esq. .......
David Salomons, Esq.. • • • •
Messrs. Spalding and Hodge.. • • . 5 5 0
Miss Eliza Cook. • ...... •••• • • • • ........ 50 0
Miss Cu5hman.........• • • • . • • • •••
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C. W. Dilke, Esq... • • •• • • .... 3 3 0
Charles Lushington, Esq ••..• • • • 3 0 0
Elias Davis, Esq.. ..... • • 3 3 0
The Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesmere 2 0 0
The Right Hon. Lord John Manners, M.P...... 2 0 0
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A few Poor 0 10 6
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AMERICA.

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
Congress met on the Gth, and after the usual
forms had been gone through, President Fillmore's
Message was read. It is as follows :
" Fellow-citizens of the Senate and of the House of Re-
presentatives,—The brief space which has elapsed since the
close of your last session, has been marked by no extraor-
dinary political event. The quadrennial election of chief
magistrate has passed off with less than the usual excite-
ment. However individuals and parties may have been
disappointed in the result, it is, nevertheless, a subject of
national congratulation, that the choice has been effected
by the independent suffrages of a free people, undisturbed
by those influences which in other countries have too often
affected the purity of popular elections.
" Our grateful thanks are due to an all-merciful Provi-
dence, not only for staying the pestilence which in different
forms has desolated some of our cities, but for crowning the
labours of the husbandman with an abundant harvest, and
the nation generally with the blessings of peace and
prosperity.
" Within a few weeks the public mind has been deeply
affected by the death of Daniel Webster, filling at his de-
cease the office of Secretary of State. His associates in
the Executive Government have sincerely sympathised with
his family and the public generally on this mournful occa-
sion. His commanding talents, his great political and
professional eminence, his well-tried patriotism, and his
long and faithful services in the most important public
trusts, have caused his death to be lamented throughout
the country, and have earned for him a lasting place in our
history.
"In the course of the last summer considerable anxiety
was caused for a short time by an official intimation from
the Government of Great Britain that orders had been
given for the protection of the fisheries upon the coasts of
the British provinces in North America against the alleged
encroachments of the fishing vessels of the United States
and France. The shortness of this notice and the season
of the year seemed to make it a matter of urgent impor-
tance. It was at first apprehended that an increased naval
force had been ordered to the fishing grounds to carry into
effect the British interpretation of those provisions in the
convention of 1818 in reference to the true intent of which
the two Governments differ. It was soon discovered that
such was not the design of Great Britain, and satisfactory
explanations of the real objects of the measure have been
given both here and in London.
" The unadjusted difference, however, between the two
Governments as to the interpretation of the first article of
the convention of 1818 is still a matter of importance.
American fishing-vessels within nine or ten years have been
excluded from waters to which they had free access for 25
years after the negotiation of the treaty. In 1845 this ex-
clusion was relaxed so far as concerns the Bay of Fundy ;
but the just and liberal intention of the Home Government,
in compliance with what we think the true construction of
the convention, to open all the outer bays to our fishermen
was abandoned, in consequence of the opposition of the co-
lonies. Notwithstanding this, the United States have,
since the Bay of Fundy was re-opened to our fishermen in
1815, pursued the most liberal course towards the colonial
fishing interests. By the revenue law of 1846, the duties
on colonial fish entering our ports were very greatly re-
duced, and by the Warehousing Act it is allowed to be en-
tered in bond without payment of duty. In this way co-
lonial fish has acquired the monopoly of the export trade
in our market, and is entering to some extent into the
home consumption. These facts were among those which
increased the sensibility of our fishing interest at the move-
ment in question.
" These circumstances and the incidents above alluded
to have led me to think the moment favourable for a re-
consideration of the entire subject of the fisheries on the
coasts of the British provinces, with a view to place them
upon a more liberal footing of reciprocal privilege. A wil-
lingness to meet us in some arrangement of this kind is un-
derstood to exist on the part of Great Britain, with a de-
sire on her part to include in one comprehensive settlement
as well this subject as the commercial intercourse between
the United States and the British provinces. I have
thought that, whatever arrangements may be made on
these two subjects, it is expedient that they should be em-
braced in separate conventions. The illness and death of
the late Secretary of State prevented the commencement of
the contemplated negotiation. Pains have been taken to
collect the information required for the details of such an
arrangement. The subject is attended with considerable
difficulty. If it is found practicable to come to an agree-
ment mutually acceptable to the two parties, conventions
may be concluded in the course of the present winter.
The control of Congress over all the provisions of such an
arrangement affecting the revenue will, of course, be re-
served.
" The affairs of Cuba formed a prominent topic in my
last annual message. They remain in an uneasy condition,
and a feeling of alarm and irritation on the part of the
Cuban authorities appears to exist. This feeling has inter-
fered with the regular commercial intercourse between the
United States and that island, and led to some acts of
which we have a right to complain. But the Captain-
General of Cuba is clothed with no power to treat with
foreign Governments, nor is he in any degree under the
control of the Spanish Minister at Washington. Any
communication which he may hold with an agent of a
foreign Power is informal and matter of courtesy. Anxious
to put an end to the existing inconveniences (which
seemed to 'rest on a misconception), I directed the newly-
appointed Minister to Mexico to visit the Havannah, on
his way to Vera Cruz. He was respectfully received by
the Captain-General, who conferred with him freely on the
recent occurrences, but no permanent arrangement was
effected.
" In the meantime, the refusal of the Captain-General to
allow passengers and the mail to be landed in certain cases,
for a reason which does not furnish, in the opinion of this
Government, even a good presumptive ground for such a
prohibition, has been made the subject of a serious remon-
strance at Madrid ; and I have no reason to doubt that due
respect will be paid by the Government of her Catholic
Majesty to the representations which our Minister has been
instructed to make on the subject.
" It is but justice to the Captain-General to add, that
his conduct towards the steamers employed to carry the
mails of the United States to Havannah has, with the ex-
ceptions above alluded to, been marked with kindness and
liberality, and indicates no general purpose of interfering
with the commercial correspondence and intercourse be-
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country.
official notes were received
from the Ministers of France and England, inviting the
Government of the United States to become a party with
Great Britain and France to a tripartite convention, in vir-
tue of which the three Powers should severally and collec-
tively disclaim, now and for the future, all intention to ob-
tain possession of the island of Cuba, and should bind them-
selves to discountenance all attempts to that effect on the
part of any Power or individual whatever. This invitation
has been respectfully declined, for reasons which it would
occupy too much space in this communication to state
in detail, but which led me to think that the proposed
measures would be of doubtful constitutionality, impolitic,
and unavailing. I have, however, in common with several
of my predecessors, directed the Ministers of France and
' England to be assured that the United States entertain no
designs against Cuba ; but that, on the contrary, I should
regard its incorporation into the Union at the present time
as fraught with serious peril. 1
" Were this islandtomparatively destitute of inhabit-
ants, or occupied by a kindred race, I should regard it, if
voluntarily ceded by Spain, as a most desirable acquisition.
But, under existing circumstances, I should look upon its
incorporation into our Union as a very hazardous measure.
It would bring into the confederacy a population of a dif-
ferent national stock, speaking a different language, and
not likely to harmonise with the other members. It would
probably affect in a prejudicial manner the industrial in-
terest of the South, and it might revive those conflicts of
opinion between the different sections of the country which
lately shook the Union to its centre, and which have been
so happily compromised.
" The rejection by the Mexican Congress of the conven-
tion which had been concluded between that republic and
the United States for the protection of a transit way across
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and of the interests of those
citizens of the United States who had become proprietors
of the rights which Mexico had conferred on one of her
own citizens in regard to that transit, has thrown a serious
obstacle in the way of the attainment of a very desirable
national object. lam still willing to hope that the differ-
ences on the subject which exist, or may hereafter arise,
between the two Governments, will be amicably adjusted.
This subject, however, has already engaged the attention
of the Senate of the United States, and requires no fur-
ther comment in this communication.
" The settlement of the question respecting the port of
San Juan de Nicaragua, and of the controversy between the
Republics of Costa Rica and Nicaragua in regard to their
boundaries, was considered indispensable to the commence-
ment of the ship canal between the two oceans, which was the
subject of the convention between the United States and.
Great Britain of the 19th of April, 1850. Accordingly, a pro-
position for the same purposes, addressed to the two Go-
vernments in that quarter,and to the Mosquito Indians, was
agreed to in April last by the Secretary of State and the
Minister of her Britannic Majesty. Besides the wish to aid
in reconciling the differences of the two republics, I engaged
fa,the negotiation from a desire to place the great work of
ship canal between the two oceans under one Jurisdiction,