§ MAJOR EDWARDSsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the announcement that he made last Session, that the Peruvian Government had arranged that the price of Guano should be uniform here and in the United States, had been justified by the result; and, if not, what steps Her Majesty's Government proposed to take.
MR. SEYMOUR FITZGERALDsaid, that the only information possessed by the Government upon this subject had been obtained from the public journals. They had received no official information of the difference stated to exist between the price 389 of guano here and at New York. If they found that such a difference was perpetuated, it would be their duty to bring the fact seriously under the notice of the Peruvian Government.