2 SEPTEMBER 1922, Page 2

Probably most people thought, as we have all along thought,

that a certain number of busybodies have been in the habit of making tentative offers of honours to rich men in the reasonable expectation that if a sufficient sum of money were offered in return for the honour the organizers of the Party Funds would see that the honour was duly granted. The tout would then be in the position to demand his own reward, either in money or its equivalent. But the Duke's letter to the Morning Post has caused the matter to be taken further than that,