The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-13 00:00:00

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TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 13,1853.

IT will be remembered that, a short time since
when the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce made
an urgent remonstrance to the Government on the
subject of the supply of Guano from certain islands
in the Pacific Ocean, it was then believed that the
supply was almost inexhaustible. The remon-
strance was ineffectual, because it was shown that
the sovereignty of the islands rested indubitably
with Peru, and that, consequently, the trade must
depend on such arrangements as could be made by
British merchants with those who had the legal
property in this important article of commerce.
A new difficulty has, however, arisen of far more
consequence than rights of ownership, and one
which will demand far more active measures to
provide against. The belief that the supply was
inexhaustible has been proved to be utterly falla-
cious, and that, so far from expecting increased
supplies, a very few years will serve to deprive the
Chinca Islands of the whole of their present store.
A very careful survey has been made by the most
competent authorities, and they have arrived at
the conclusion that, without exceeding the present
rate of export, which is about one million tons
annually, the whole will be removed in little more
than eight years. The improvements which have
taken place in modern agriculture have rendered
this article almost a necessary; and though chemical
skill has done much to test the value of manures
for fertilising purposes, the great difficulty is the
obtaining adequate quantities at such lowness of
price as to render them really advantageous. We
have now, however, a few years' notice, and the
interval must be employed, in discovering new
sources of supply through maritime enterprise, or
by scientific skill devising some mode of providing
an efficient substif-'

_.___cute. It cannot be that all the
boasted science of the present day should find
itself foiled by apparently so simple a problem, or

soaring too high for so humble a pursuit as that
of providing cheap ammonia and phosphates for