The Daily News reports that an Association is already being
formed in London to prosecute Ritualist clergymen, under the Public: Worship Regulation Act. The moment it is formed, of course a counter one will be established to prosecute Evangeli- cals; and when the Act has been widened to include doctrine, a third one for the prosecution of all heretics. Every clergyman 'will' then be Watched, his proceedings reported to the Societies, and a charge, in the majority of cases, laid before the Bishop. It -eosts very little to go that far, and a heresy-hunting Society will get nothing unless it shows zeal. We do not envy Dr. Jackson his position, and he will be the least worried of all the Bishops. Londoners are not tied either by inclination or custom to the parish church, and are apt to be more tolerant than the country- folk. They have more things to interest them, and can- not well get into such bitter personal relations with their clergyman. Stills London is a very cloaca of rich men with nothing to do, who will enjoy this new form of badger-drawing intensely, and it would not surprise us to hear in 1876 that Dr. Jackson had applied for a Suffragan, on the ground that his work was twelve months in arrears. No chaplain, be it remembered, can take this duty off his shoulders.
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