New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-24
The LObos Guano.

Mr.. Thomas p. Hocomb makes, in TX
Journal Of Commerce, the following st4tessts
with relation to the right of ownership in the u
hos Islands and their deposits Of guano:
That these Islands in the ocean were mapped he
old Spanish Chart In ~hich Peru Is a!so dssedbxs
proves nothing 10 would have been surorsine urlx
any state OF facts that they should net have ioqi
place on chart describing cosst country In thsG
act rou!e 10 which they ay. Besides, merely msopH
ISLANDS or ROCKS In the ocean by the dlscovrrer, ~
person who Glanced 10 see them, give no ex,iyw
claim against the rect Of tho world when the oBJs
oence of title is the map chart nor does the ~
honal fact stated thai they spoken 81 hlstoh
dciioDs,y Of the West Indies or America, namsys
the Kingdoms OF New Spain, Peru, &c, &c. &c On
any additional Insight IL Il 10 ia this way Us
territ6y can be appropriated sndtreasures hoardedk
generations from the present race of men.
careful examination Of the action Of tho Bnz
Government will show that they have never coacede
ence 10 the Lobos I. nds. They evisolsy consider
question an open one, and mean 50 10 leave IT, "iJrp
present"
N 1884, Lord PaInerston had only before hin, d
statement OF Mr. Y. n. Wilson, who seems from hras
last to be slmos, the sole rDRtss for Peru Lord p
merston merely says from the stasmsst oOstasasdf
your dispatoh, Tiers u douDs tae rs
OF Peru and -dds, "there being evidence 10 u
papers which you have transmitted Of sDy ,t Of ~
Ing acquired BY long uninterrupted usage N1sk
our case Wa DO set up this usage OF resortns p
those s-nds as early as l793 for SEAL eggs anything
they contained
IL 1915 Viscount Canning replies TO Lord s,pios
sDd regrets thSt H. cannot satisfactorily aas~er Los
sanoons pots, or answer the inquiries made by Mean
I. Poweys Co, further than by 1t Ting thsg thets
Islands Dsu cd oy him supposed 10 form psr Of re
terrirory of Peru
In Isl Lord Palmer.,on seems 70 entertain sr,s
greater doubts Of the 1T OF Peru the h. did 10 ls
aud thus expresses himself through Lord s,arlsy; y
am TO state 10 you in reply, that Lord Palm cav
no.nks upon himself 10 say whether the 10 amos
LObos AfueTa and LObOs de Tierrs b,ioay efyshr
Peru, or are claimed by Peru as depend encies. ID
Lordship does net fnf In the Peruvian constitutions
pubished amer Peru had separated Itself from Spsk
any MsnGi0n of La0s, Islands heinz a1pegdsneiag
Ptrb; but il appears % Lord Palmers,on that the
proxiu iry 10 Peru would give 10 that State a prts
tacs claim TO them. =
The Earl Of M-nesbury on the Ito OF hsy -
after staring the grounds Of the claims OF Peru, ads
I" Wh,thtr nls sires Tie GortrHHtnt 81 PU@ ~.
the Lobss Islands or not its CERTAIN In consequence
the msDy -nicl-s appearing In toe public papen
Peruvian Governn have notified their oossess'0es
those iaancs, and that they Will resst any st-mpt -
them an further 10 state tbs, her Majesty o" %
J. present. prepared 10 protect Brithn
who should appropriate the guano OF the Looos ssps
/ reIeat, that tho question Is an oDen one. and y.
fesseoly undecided, full statement and essr2s
OF all the far's eit er oy the prescott or any oneI
lish A1ninfrator; and al thsf the Eoglsn TO-, -
of Peruvian bond. have been able 10 get. With a. -
iDfiuesce ,bey could exert. Is the expression tn&
present. 'he Govern uient Is not prepared 10 prov
English vessf Is In bringing away the gusno.
Blu, our Re much stronger the facts. fifs
claim d usage commencing In 1893; snd, secooo,
discovery of she deposits OF susoo on these himc2
Csps Bepisrin Morrell an American citizen 10 ~
he FRS; surveyed the c, asst and harbor s1ofes1
these rocky islands snd first published 10 the von1
extent OF the valuable deposits they contain Ih
don Trno mas repeatedly conceded the strength ~
claim derived from this source IL 10 fact sonaJ
note that IL was not until aftv Morrelrs book appJn
In 1893 that the Peruvian Government hfst sseo
"decrees sgaiDst vessels resorting TO these ssa =,
decTess which Lord Townsend, then CON msnaius
English squadron In the Pacific, utterly denied ~.
gsty apd l'inong force of-Lord Townsend sss'gesvf
As Mr. Consul Wilson complains, that sll Hn aS
subjects had a positive right of fishing on al - -
snos, uness "they should be actually eeesPs,, -
PeTUrtan authority" Lord Townsend, sm dros
served. was the spot, was command ng 49, se
10 The Pacific, and from bis nautical life, doooue