revent her taking her dog into the
carriage. The lady argued that Parliament had compelled the companies to
find separate carriages for smokers, and they ought to be further
compelled to have a separate carriage for ladies with lap-dogs, and it
was perfectly scandalous that they should be separated, and a valuable
dog, worth perhaps thirty or forty guineas, should be put into a dog
compartment. I have some of the B stock of the railway, upon which not a
penny has ever been paid, and I could not help comparing my experience of
this particular line of railway with that of my fellow-traveller, and
wondering what sort of a train that would be which would provide
accommodation for all the wants and wishes of railway travellers."

WHAT IS PASSENGERS' LUGGAGE?

A gentleman removing took with him on the Great Western railway articles
consisting of six pairs of blankets, six pairs of sheets, and six
counterpanes, valued at 16 pounds, belonging to his household furniture.
They were in a box, which was put in the luggage van and lost. The
question at law was whether these articles came within the definition,
"ordinary passengers' luggage," for which, if lost, the passenger could
claim damages from the Company.

The judges of the Court of Queen's Bench sitting in Banco have decided
that such is not personal luggage.

"Now," (said the Lord Chief Justice) "although we are far from saying
that a pair of sheets or the like taken by a passenger for his use on a
journey might not fairly be considered as personal luggage, it appears to
us that a quantity of articles of that description intended, not for the
use of the traveller on the journey, but for the use of his household,
when permanently settled, cannot be held to be so."

--_Herepath's Railway Journal_, Jan. 10, 1871.

CONVERSION OF THE GAUGE.

The conversion of the gauge on the South Wales section of the Great
Western railway in 1872 was of the heaviest description, the period of
labour lasting from seventeen to eighteen hours a day for several
successive days. It was the greatest work of its kind, and nothing
exactly like it will ever be done in England again. The lines of rail to
be connected would have made about 400 miles in single length, the number
of men employed was about 1500; and the time taken was two weeks nearly.
Oatmeal and barley water was made into a thin gruel and given to the men
as required. It was the onl