12 JUNE 1852, Page 10

A great agricultural deputation waited on the Earl of Derby

yesterday, at Downing Street, to urge Government to take every possible means of getting guano more cheaply and abundantly—especially from Peru and the Lobos Islands. Lord Derby gave the deputation all his sympathies, but no hopes of cheaper guano : he did not know what terms he could offer to Peru, and did not entertain very sanguine hopes that he should persuade the Peruvians to lower their price.