The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-13 00:00:00

AGIIICULTURE IN INDIA.

Since Lord Mayo became Viceroy there has been
a good deal of discussion about the formation of a
Department of Ageicultnre and Commerce in India.
Mr. Rivett Comae, Cotton Commissioner in the Cen-
tral Provinces, was named as the probable
heal of the department. The Secretary of
State has approved of the propositions of
the Indian Government respecting the plan,
and a comprehensive scheme will shortly
be sent to England for sanction. The " Eng-
lishman " observes that this new Department will
not entail additional expense. The Department of
i Agriculture and Commerce will determine all ques-

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, FEBRUARY 12.

The Queen, accomianied by Princess Beatrice, and
attended by Lady Churchill, walked and drove in the
Home Park yesterday afternoon.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone and Mrs. Gladstone,
Miss and Miss Mary Gladstone, arrived at the Castle on
a visit to the Queen.
Her Majesty, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and
Prince Leopold, attended Divine service this morning in
the private chapel.

PARLIAMENT THIS WEEK.
The first and most interesting of the orders of the
day on Monday is the committee on the Royal Message
we
concerning the Princess Louise's dowry. Then follo
the Committee of Supply, and a host of questions, many
of which are of considerable importance, especially that
of Mr. Auberon Herbert, as to the at-
titude of the Government with respect to
the terms of peace. The notices of motions include
Mr. Bruce's Mines Regulation Bill, the Lord Advo-
cate's Education (Scotland) Bill, Mr. Forster's pro-
posal for a committee on the operation of the Vaccination
Act, Mr. Chichester Fortescue's Merchant Shipping
Bill, Sir Wilfrid Lawson's Permissive Prohibitory
Liquor Bill, Mr. Jacob Bright's Bill for the
Removal of the Electoral Disabilities of Women, Mr.
M`Logan's Game Laws (Scotland) Amendment Bill, and
Torrens' motion for poor-law returns. On Tuesday
14th, we have Mr. Donald Dalrymple's Bill providing for
the management of Habitual Drunkards, Mr. Bruce's Bill
to amend the law relating to Trades' Unions, the Attorney-
General's Ecclesiastical Titles Act Repeal, Mr. Grave's
motion for naval returns of the men and boys in the Navy,
-and Lard G. Hamilton's address for copy of correspondence
respecting Mr. Worth's imprisonment by the Germans.
On Wednesday comes the deceased Wife's Sister Bill.
On Thursday, 16th, the order of the day is the University
Tests Bill, second reading. Friday brings the second
reading of the Sunday Trading Bill; and on going into
committee of supply Mr. Fawcett will move for a select
committee on Indian administration.

Mr. Bogle has undertaken a mission to England
in connection with the projected New Zealand loan,
the amount of which will, it is said, be £4,000,000

sterling.
THE CASE OF MR. WORTH.—The clamour raised
against the Government in reference to the case of Mr.
Worth is altogether unfounded. We say this without
reserve and with confidence, because it is a question of law
and not of politics. These are the facts :—Mr. F. G. Worth,
a British subject, and in possession of a British passport,
was in Paris. On October 22 he asked for leave to pass out
of Paris, and was refused by the Prussian officials. He sub-
sequently left Paris in a balloon, and was captured by the
Prussians. He was sent to Cologne, and after months of
detention was, on January 17, brought before a court-mar-
tial, and, we presume, acquitted of the charges preferred
against him. Meantime the English Government made
constant applications on his behalf, and on January 30
Lord Granville was informed by Mr. Odo Russell that
"Mr. Worth will shortly be set at liberty." A Mr. Little-
wood, who has been acting for Mr. Worth, asks Lord
Granville to inform him " why Mr. Worth has been in
prison nearly four months, upon what charges he has
been tried, and why he is now detained iu
-Prussian
Now, we do not defend the conduct of the
Government ; but we may remark that, in time
of war, it is not unusual to violate the
cherished custom of bringing an accused person
to an immediate trial. But, however wrong the Prussian
Governmentmay be, the English Government is not blame-
worthy. Mr. Worth chose to remain in a country at war.
He chose to remain in a city about to be besieged,
though he had full notice to depart. More than that,
he acknowledged the right of the Prussians to keep
him in the city by asking for permission to pass
through their lines. That permission being refused he de-
fied the authority he had acknowledged, and endeavoured
to make his escape by balloon. The British Government
had no right whatever to demand his surrender. A British
subject does not carry the laws of his country about with
him. He is under the laws of the country in which he
resides. If he is in a besieged city, and still more if he
deliberately remains in a city that is about to be besieged,
he is under the laws of war, and has no right to complain
if he is arrested when endeavouring to escape. The British
Government cannot protect British subjects against the
consequences of their own acts. Mr. Worth may have been
I hardly used by the Prussian Government, but for that the
F British Government is in degree responsible.—Law
- Journal.