§ MAJOR WINDSOR PARKERsaid, that the noble Lord (Lord John Russell) had, by anticipation, answered the question he bad put on the paper relative to the importation of Peruvian guano. He would, however, venture to remark that while they had imported last year about £30,000,000 sterling worth of corn the importation of that valuable fertilizer had gradually fallen off. It had been calculated that one ton of Peruvian guano was equivalent to a production of five quarters of corn, and upon that calculation the falling off in the import represented a falling off in the production of corn in this country of 2,000,000 quarters. The Government would, therefore, confer a great benefit on the country if they would give greater encouragement to the importation of guano, so that the country might cease to be dependent on foreign nations for such enormous importations of grain. The House had been reminded by a petition presented by the grand jury of Leitrim that the Peruvian Congress had endeavoured to do away with the monopoly by which the English farmer was charged £2 5s. per ton more than his American rival. If that resolution of the Peruvian Congress should be carried out the English farmer would be saved £500,000 a year. The trade in Peruvian guano was in a most unsatisfactory state, and he trusted that the Government would energetically urge upon the Government of Peru to make some reduction in the present enormous export charge levied on guano.