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unanimously adjudged that the offending vocalist should be immediately thrown overboard.

I have little doubt that this edict would have been promptly carried into effect but for the interposition of a passenger, who chanced to be a room-mate of the culprit. This gentleman, presuming to dissent from an eminently proper verdict, remarked that, although he had no personal acquaintance with the convicted person, yet, as he occupied a berth in the same room with himself, he felt bound on general principles to "stand by him."

The court, on hearing this audacious plea, was on the point of ordering a double execution, when it was discovered that the new offender was a Kentucky cowboy, very highly respected in virtue of the fact that he was reputed to carry about his person a 42 calibre revolver.

Under these special circumstances, the court graciously reconsidered its decision, and magnanimously proclaimed a general amnesty. We reached New York without further incident of importance, and having spent a few pleasant weeks in the Empire City of America, our journey was resumed towards the great West.

Captain Henry Parsell, R.N.R.
From a Photo. by Medrington, Liverpool.

At the foot of Desbrosses Street, on the Hudson River, we went on board one of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's ferryboats, plying between the Jersey City station of that line and the terminus at either Desbrosses or Courtlandt Street, the latter about a mile lower down the river, near Bowling Green and the Battery. These boats are large and commodious, with handsomely furnished upper saloons and broad decks, from which an excellent view of the busiest part of the Hudson River can be enjoyed. The wide bow of the ferry-boat is quickly secured to the dock on the opposite side, and we walk along elevated passage-ways and under a wide-spreading arch, through the white glass of which the light gleams upon long lines of passenger-cars, made up into trains ready to start for widely different sections of the country. Our tickets entitle us to places in the "Pennsylvania, Limited," which is claimed to be the most perfect and luxurious railway train in the world.

A few minutes before twelve o'clock we are comfortably installed in our section of an admirably appointed drawing-room and sleeping car, in which each division is represented by a space of about six feet by by four, reserved for two passengers only. The car is much the same in appearance as the sleeping carriages of the American Pullman type now largely used on the principal English lines. But here the comparison with English railways ends. This "Pennsylvania, Limited," certainly possesses in its entirety no peer in the Old World, nor, so far as I am aware, is it equalled by any other special train in America.

Through an inclosed vestibule between each of the cars as they are coupled together, the traveller may pass with ease and safety from one end of the train to the other. These vestibules are constructed of a strong steel framework, which serves as an additional safeguard against "telescoping," by which the greatest number of lives are lost in railway collisions. The car between the one we occupied and the dining-car, located further in the rear, is similar in appearance to our own, but in passing through it we observed one or two special features.

A coloured woman, in a neat blue serge