The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-23 00:00:00

GENERAL TRADE.

The Company will not, however, depend on Cotton alone
for realising a good dividend on the capital employed. The
interchange of commodities will be widened to the largest
possible extent, so as to include every other product of
Africa, which will pay an enhanced value in this country.
These products, which consist chiefly of Palm Oil, Shea
nutter, Gold Dust, Ivory, Hides, Indigo, Copper, Ground
Nuts, Pepper, Arrowroot, Gums, Dye Woods, Ostrich
Feathers, Timber for Shipbuilding, and other articles of
commerce, equally suitable to the requirements of our mar-
kets, will also be made the media of trade, *o as to suit the
industry and keen trading instincts of the various classes
of Native producers. The fact that the production of Palm
Oil, Shea Butter, and other valuable articles, is in excess of
the local demand, can be shown by the latest and most in-
dubitable authorities. The Rev. Samuel Crowther, writing
to the Church Missionary Society lately, states, "at the
Delta of the Niger alone, millions' worth, in red Oil and
and black Oil from the kernels of the Palm nut, rot away
annually for want of inducement to collect them." From
an official document received through the Board of Trade,
it appears that in 1856 upwards of 220,000 tons of these '
kernels,
ave 3 from which Oil of the value of £3,789,000 might
coast. been extracted, were actually thrown away on the
sum of amount thus lost represents in actual value a
upwards of a Million Sterling more than all the
tallow exported from Russia in that year; and when it is
considered that the tallow
was paid for in cash, and that the
bulk of the trade with
Africamay
be carried on by barter
to the manufactures of Manchester,
Glasgow, Birmingham,
the Potteries, and Sheffield, it impossible to overate the
benefits which will accrue to this country by developing the
resources of Western Africa.
As there is no currency in the country trade is conducted
by means of barter, so that a market for English
produc-
tions will be opened at every point from which the Com.•
pany draws its supplies of raw materials. A profit both
ways will thus be obtained by the Company, viz., upon the
goods sold in Africa, and, vice versa, upon the Cotton,
Palm Oil, &c., imported and sold in the English markets.
The West Africa Company will commence operations
under peculiarly favourable circumstances, owing to the
fact that their agencies on the West Coast of Africa are
already organised; and competent acclimatised persons,
native merchants and others, at Abeokuta, Elmina, Lagos,
Cape Palmas, and in the Niger river, are ready to act in
behalf of the Company the moment it commences business.
The agencies of the Company being thus already satisfied,
and a considerable number of shares having been subscribed
for, the operation of the Company will commence forthwith.
From the foregoing statements, taken together with the
fact that this Company will possess unusual facilities for
successfulan mercantile operations, owing to its large capital
tiodnscovTlections it is confidently expected that its transac-
tions
a knowledge produce very handsome dividends. Persons hav-
stenthat to
d wiedge of the African trade will readily under-
rest on the
name what would be a probable rate of inte-
the stamp of capitale worked would, to the uninitiated, bear
assured that the Company
The Directors, however, feel
di-
mensions as to invest
and will eventually assume such
und that the develli it with a most important character ;
more than anythin
rae7nt of the resources of Africa will do
Foreign Slave Trade
event
se to hasten the extinction of the
lanthropy than to corLaaenrcee.v not more desirable to phi-

* See African Aid Societ
and enerall in con
'sofitpport for 1862, page 10,
gy firmation
Annual Reports of the Cotton Supplyo Association ; "'The
statements herein the
Cotton Plant Countries sdapted
5-15, &c. ; D. J. May, Esq,, R is,' i(ti;. Culture" pages
D,Lvis, Sur-
and the Reports of Mr. Consul Burton , ii,lerr Expedition),
.as they are by Mr.
Naof.Abeokuta ;
geon to the Niger Expedition; ratified
Consul Campbell; the Rev. Mr. Townsend.
D. R. Ross, Esq.; and by Captain J. P. pier Hewett,
in his recent work" European Settlements on the West
Coast of Africa."

Shares mill be allotted in the order of application
Applications for Shares may be made in the accOmpany-
Rrfebardmneteod these Brokers,et L o London,
s Hugginsc.,or to t dhe storme I 1 ,
the Temporary Offices of the Company, 41, Gresham.
house, E.C.

FORM OF APPLICATION OF SHARES.
To the Directors of The West Africa Company,
Limited."
Gentlemen,—Having paid to the Bankers of the
above Company, 1 request you to allot me Shares in
tl
a Company ; and I agree to accept the same, or any less
number that may be allotted to me, and to pay £1 10s. per
Share on the allotment being made.
Name
Address

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STEW THEATRE-110 VAL, ADFLPHT,
Coln Prouriator and Ntnnsurer. Mr. R. Webnter.
THIS EVENING, THE GREEN BIISHEA. Messrs. G.
Honey, Paul Bedford, Billing'on, Sefton, Stephenson, Lewis,
Ehurne, Romer. Mies Avonia Jones, Mis,t Woolgar, Mrs.
Rillington, and Mrs. Stoker.
To conclude with THE SHIT rrNa DAY AT. THE
GREAT EXHIBITION. Messrs. G. Honey. P. Bedford,
R. Phillips, Sefton, C. J. Smith, Romer ; Miss A. Bland
and Mrs. H. Lewis.

Commence at 7.

1.1) OVAL PRTNCFSS'S THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Lindu%.
TATS EVENING, DELICATE GROUND. Mr. George
Vining, Mr. E. Roxby, and Miss M. Oliver.
Alter which, at Eight o'clock. Sheridsn Knowles' Play of
LOVE. Messrs. H. Diarston, TT. Vezin, Shore, R. Cathcart,
C. S yton ; Mrs. Buckingham White and Misses Murray and
Constance Aylmer.

To conclude with PERFECTION, Messrs. Fitziames,
Roxby, Belmore ; and Misses M. Oliver and Murray.

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294th Night of the '..ontinpous run of "Peep o'Day."
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essrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville:
nd Edmund Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara
eston.
To be followed by the Last View of KILLARNEY, intro-
ducing the Ballet.
Co44cludirg with the new Comediptt4, IT MUST BE
TRUE, 'T NV 144 S IN TILE PAPERS. Walter Lacy, J.
Robins ; Mrs. Weston, Ptiss Weston, and Miss L. Thompson.

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