It appears that Mr. Goschen, who, though he took a
first-class at Oxford, had some scruple at that time about taking his degree, is still ou the list of Undergraduates, and that as a consequence he is still persecuted by money-lenders with the offer of loans on notes of hand or on property of any kind, " at a very low rate of in- terest," one of which beautiful documents he sent to last Saturday's Times, stating that as it was " the second offer of this tempt- ing kind" he had received within the last few mouths, he thought that the best means at his disposal for securing as much notoriety as possible " to these confidential pro- posals " was to publish one of them. It was quite pro- perly addressed to the Right Hon. G. J. Gosehen, Oriel College," but the M.P. was omitted,—probably the only title which would have clearly conveyed to the mind of the money- lender's clerk that the bearer of it was not likely to close eagerly with offers of this nature. Official letters are still a mystery to the majority of business men, and the names even of Cabinet Ministers are familiar only to about a five-hundredth part of the population.
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