PROPOSED LONDON AND PORTSMOUTH ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.
A very numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Portsmouth was held on Monday evening, at which the preliminary measures for a direct line between London and Portsmouth were resolved upon unanimously. The proposed line is to be an atmospheric one, and extend from Epsom (for a railway between which place and Croydon an act had already been obtained) to Godalming, Petersfield, Havant, and on to Portsmouth. From the statement of Mr. Cubitt, the engineer, it appears that the promoters of the plan pledge themselves that the fares will not be more than two-thirds of the present fares by the South-Western route, and, in addition, the journey is to be made in half the time. The line will be about eighty miles in length.