Mr. Dillwyn, with his usual impetuosity against ecclesiastical Bills when
brought under discussion at the end of a Session, gave the coup de grace on Tuesday to the Bill for releasing Mr. Green from prison—a very serious injustice to a man who will now very shortly be deprived of his living for his contumacy, and who is, nevertheless, kept in prison for not consenting to a ritual to which he sincerely believes that he has no right to consent. It is hard that one who is just about to be deprived should also be imprisoned, for refusing to give an engagement which no reasonable man thinks him morally guilty for declining to give. Also, Mr. Dillveyn's zeal against this sort of ecclesiastical legis- lation is not according to knowledge, if it be true that he said, as reported in the Times," that Mr. Green had only to abstain from teaching unlawful doctrine in order to procure his release." Mr. Green has never taught "unlawful doctrine," so far as we know; and even if he had taught the doctrine which is supposed to underlie his ritual practices, it would, we believe, be quite lawful.
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