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pHE PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY COM-
A. PANY.-,Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each.—
i)eposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
Under the approval and support of the following, amongst other
landowners and gentlemen locally interested in the counties of
surrey, Hampshire, 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 Leekc, West Leigh
William J. Evelyn, Esq , M P. for West Surrey.
• Sir William (4. Hylton Jolliffe, Bart., M.P.
The Mayor of Petersiirld.
Johli Bonham Carter, Esq., M.P.
J. H. Waddington, Esq., Langrish.
War-Admiral Sir Phipps Hamby. Little Green, Cu sea.
The Hon. J. J. Carnegie, Fair Oak, Peterstial.
Major Mundy, Hollybank.
Colonel Hugonin, Niirstead.
Joseph Martineau, Esq., Basing Park.
The Rev. William Legge.
Colonel Charles Wyndham. Rogate Lodge.
Sr Charles Taylor. Bart.. ilollycomb.
Sir Archibald Keppel Macdonald, Hart., Woolmer Lodge.
Thomas Bdtler, Esq., Downlands.

DIRECTORS.
Charles Henry Blake, Esq., 15, Devonshire-place,
Major Butler, Liphook.
William Eldridge Butler, Esq.. Le Cur
flel
t, near Petersd.
11. Bonham Carter, Esq., 6, Whit,,b all, and Peterstiel,l.
The Hon. Thomas William Gage, Wests,ury, near Petersfteld.
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, b• ewer.
Francis Mowatt, Esq , Petersfield. and Devonshire-place, London.
Thomas Ellis Owen, Esq., Dover Court, Southsea.
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.
Mes.rs. Grant, Gilman, and Long, Portsmouth.
The London and County Bank, Pctersfield.
The West Surrey Bank, Guildford and Godalming.
SOLICITORS.—Messrs. Roy, London.
SEchmkay.—Alexander E. Lloyd, Esq., pro tern.
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 1846, to
Havat, it will there unite with the Coast idne of the Brighton Com-
pany,n 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
conurred in promoting this measure, and have, to the extent of
nearly 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 s3.Ying 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 1,500,0n01. then required.
It has been also thither 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 former 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 int* 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 12,0001. per mile, including the cost 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 one-half 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 all afford the most di-act. and by far the cheapest route be.
tween London and Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, being the shorter
by twenty-two miles than either ofthe two existing lines, and being
contracted for at 12,0001. a mile, -n lien of about four times that a-
mount expended on the Brighton and South -Western lines will have,
through the South-eastern, from Goda'ming, 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, must
snake competition on the part of its rivals hopeles if not impos 1-
ble, Further, the whole cost of the entire works and material has
been
;nndertaken, 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 en 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 4s. per
share, and the balance will be r. turned to the shareholders.
Below are given the particulars of the lengths of the different
Tines, together with the existing population and traffic, referre t d o.
London to Portsmouth by Brighton Railway . • . 95 miles
PP PP by South-Wevern . .94
PI by proposed Godalming and Ha:
Pe vant line . . • . .73
.• by South-Eastern via Godalming . 81
Capital expended on South Western Railway . . £8,614 814
on Brighton and South Coast . . 7,200,000
Pe
Pt „ 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-Westernßailway C
he past half
omp4ny of
the comparative number of passengs7a bookedß during t
year at the principal stations on their liner—
' Dorchester 23,000
Salisbury 31,000
,000
Portsmouth and Gosport • • • 188
126,000
Sout hamptoa • • • • •
52,000
Winchester
34,000
Basingstoke • . . . .
Applications for the Company's Shares remaining undisposed of,
may be made to Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son, Stockbrokers,
fO, Lothbury, London ; to the Solicitors, Messrs. R. and W. G. Roy,
4, Lothbury. and 37, Great George-street, London ; or, to Thom
rs.
Havanas
Mellersh, Esq., Godalming ; G. J. Parson, Esq , Haslemere ; Mess ;
Mitchell and Minty, Petersfield; C. J. Longeroft, Esq., t
the London and Westminster Bank, London ; the West Surrey Bank,
Guildford and Godalming ; the London and County Bank, Peter
field ; and Messrs. Grant, Gillman, and Long, Bankers, Portsmouths-
.n the following form :

400,000
70,000
50,000

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Portsmouth Railway COD:TaIIY.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of
20/. 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. bseription contract when required.
Dated this day of
Name •• • • .......
Profession or Business .
Reference • • ..... . .... • .
Offices, 37, Great George-street, Westminster. Dec., 1852.

,1852.

IFIHE PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY.-
NOTICE TS HEREBY GIVEN, That NO APPLICATIONS
for SHARES will be received atter FRIDAY next, the 24th inst.
By Order of the Board,

ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE, AND THE SECRET
INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY.
WITH FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL.
In French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian, in a
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S+ ELF-PRESERVATION; an
Analytical Investigation of the Physiology and Functions of
Marriage, in all the bearings in which that important subject affects
the health and happine.s of Man, with its Disqualifications and Impe-
diments, tracing their origin to the effects of juvenile solitary habits,
youthful excess, tropical climates, or close study ; followed by prac-
tical remarks, founded on twenty years experience in the treatment
of Impuissance. Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, spermatorrhosa,
Syphilis, and all diseases of the Urinary and Gegerative System. Il-
lustrated by sO coloured Engravings, on the Anatomy of the Repro-
ductive Organs and their relative conditions in Health and Disease.
By SAMUEL LA'MERT,
37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
D. ctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
'atrgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society,
Licentiate of Au( ',wearies' Ball, London. &c., &c.
The essential ect of this treatise is to point out the fearful
consequences resn'ting from irregularities and excesses, which
have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man-
hood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any
other class of disease known to modern pathologists. The treatment
adopted is founded on experience gained in the most celebrated
schools of medicine both in this country and in continental Europe.
The results of the knowledge thus acquired are here condensed under
the personal supervision 9f Dr. La'Mert, himself one 'of the few
egally qualified physicians who have devoted their whole and un-
divided studies to this important branch of medical science. In short,
every peculiarity relating to the treatment of the diseases incidental
to the generative system. and the means of immediate relief and
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