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the names in general use belong to one or other of the incarnations of Rama or Krishna, the god Vishnu ; many of the names are a combination of two such titles Ramakrishnan itself is quite common.

The Mohammedan names, Ghulam Mo- hiddin, &c., are not in point. To a Moham- medan it would be blasphemous to name a man by the name of God, as it would be to -a Christian. Combinations of Ghulam (lit., a slave) and Abdul (=servant of) are com- mon among the Mohammedans of Madras. But the typical Hindu names are simply the names of the gods. I may add that servile beggars often address as " swami (my lord) " those of whom they solicit alms. FERRAND E. COBLE Y.

Madras Christian College.

CROOKE or THE ISLAND OF ST. CHRIS- TOPHER (10 S. vii. 428). The following notes I made some years ago at the Public Record Office are worth printing :

1714. A letter signed by Samuel Crooke, Esq., with remains of heraldic seal (B.T. Leeward Islands, vol. xiii.).

1717- Governor Hamilton writes that he has suspended Mr. Clement Crooke as Chief Justice {ibid., vol. xv.).

The Transcripts of Parish Registers (ibid., vols. xxi. and xxiv.) include the following : CHRIST CHURCH, NICHOLA TOWN.

Baptisms.

1721, July 7th. John, s. of Sam" and Mary Crooke.

1726, x^ T 31st. Mary, d. of S. and M. C. 1729, April 20th. Benjamin, s. of S. and M. C. 1734, Oct br 13th. Herriot, D. to Mr. Clement and

Mrs. Herriot Crooke, born the 1st of the same month.

ST. JOHN, CABBESTERRE. Baptisms.

1721, 7 ber 18th. Nicholas, s. of Nicholas Crooke.

1725, 9^ 13th- g am ii j s of Nicholas arid Franses Crooke.

1727, Aug 8t loth. Franses, d. of N. and F. C.

1728, 9 ber 29th. Franses, d. of N. and F. C.

Burial*.

1726, July 15th. Sam", s. of Nicholas and Franses Crooke.

1727, Aug 8t 19th. Franses, d. of N. and F. C.

1729, Aug 8t 1st. Franses, d. of N. and F. C. 1729, 9 ber 10th. Elinor Crooke, Widow.

ST. MARY, CAYON. Baptism.

1722, 7 ber 20th. Dowson, s. of Clement and Eliz. 'Crooke.

1732. An Act was passed for cutting off all estates tail limited by Clement Crooke, Esq., deceased, in his last will, and for vesting the same in fee-simple in Clement Crooke, Esq., his eldest son and heir at law ('Laws of St. Chr.,' fo., 1739).

1753. Mr. Nicholas Crooke, one plantation in St. John's, Cappesterre; Samuel Crooke, Esq., one

plantation in St. Mary, Cayonne ; Clement Crooke, Esq., ditto (Baker's Map of St. Chr.).

1770. Daniel Cunningham, Esq., in his will of this date, speaks of " my plantation in the parish of St. Mary, Cayon, called The Spring, which I purchased from Clement Crooke, Doctor of Physic " (P.C.C. 455 Collier).

1772, March 14. The Hon. Samuel Crooke, Esq., a member of the Council of the island of St. Chris- topher, and father of Samuel Crooke, Esq., of Little Ilford in Essex (Town and Country Mag., p. 167, and Gent. Mag., p. 151).

V. L. OLIVER.

Sunninghill, Berks.

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY UNROOFED CARRIAGES (10 S. viii. 167). In the early days of railway travelling the third-class carriages were more irritating and unhealthy than the modern excursionist can believe without a strong effort. Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace, the great traveller and naturalist, in his ' My Life : a Record of Events and Opinions,' tells his readers of a journey by railway from Berkhampstead to London. He and a brother were con- veyed third class

"in open trucks identical with modern goods trucks, except that they had hinged doors, but with no seats whatever, so that any one tired of standing must sit upon the floor. Luckily it was mild weather, and the train did not go more than fifteen or twenty miles an hour, yet even at that pace the wind was very disagreeable." Vol. i. p. 135.

About the same time (I think it was in 1847) I went twice from Hull to Hezzle happily a very short journey in third-class carriages. They were wretchedly dirty, and the shower of ashes which poured upon us all the time we were in motion did great damage to our clothes. On one of these occasions a relative who was with me had a spark from the engine lodge in his left eye, from which he suffered great pain for many days. On my second journey a young woman who was dressed in a light- coloured gown said she was sure that it would be quite spoilt. She probably did not exag- gerate. I think there were not seats of any kind in these miserable trucks, but of this I am not sure. If there were, from the thick deposit of ashes thereon they could be of no use.

The third-class carriages of the present day are cleaner, and in almost every respect far more comfortable, than were the first- class of the time of which I have been writing. EDWARD PEACOCK.

Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

It would be interesting to know when third-class carriages, open at the sides and top, were finally abandoned by the great