Besides Mr. Dale, there are now two candidates for imprison-
ment,—Mr. Enraght and Mr. Green, who have both been in- hibited, for their mode of conducting public worship, have both paid no attention at all to the inhibition, and are both, there- fore, liable to imprisonment for contempt of Court. Nor is the imprisonment likely to be long delayed. It is quite clear that if these prosecutions go on, and many Ritualist clergymen get lodged in prison for ignoring Lord Penzance's judgments, there must be some change in the law made as to the penalty for contempt of Court in ecclesiastical cases. We cannot fill our prisons with these estimable fanatics, the victims of a per- verse logic and of violent ecclesiastical prejudices ; and far the best thing to do would be to repeal the Public Worship Act altogether, and then sequestrate the incomes of incumbents who will not obey the law, and will remain in the Establishment. But, as in the case of Ireland, we should like to see a removal of the grievance attempted simultaneously with the punishment of obstinate offenders against the law. These Ritualistic gentlemen. who treat Lord Penzance with so much contempt are quite in. the wrong. But then the Legislature went out of its way to irritate them, in that silly Act of 1874.
