The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-08 00:00:00

EXCHANGE PROPRIETORS.

A meting of the company of proprietors of the Liver-
pool Exchange' was held, specially, on yesterday, in the
Cotton Salesroom, in, order, as stated in the advertisement,
"to take into further consideration the question of
enlarging thepublie News-room of the' company, and of
making extensive alterations in the said buildings; and,
if the same shall be determined upon, the meeting will be
requested to authorise tha committee to make applicatic n
to parliament, at the earliest opportunity, for a farther act
to•contain all requisite powers for the above purpose ; and
all such further powers and alterations of the existing act
of the company a 3 may be deemed requisite for the batter _
management of the affairs and concerns thereof."
The chair was taken by Mr. F: Bateson.
The Chairman stated, that the meeting had been called
together in consequence of a resolution passed at the
general meeting of the 18th January, 1856, by which a
committee was appointed, and requested to •procure plans.
during the year, for the improvement of the Exchange-
bUildings. The report of the committee, in accordance
with that resolution, would now be read.
The Secretary then read the report.
Mr.- Harwood Banner proposed a resolutTon to the effect
that the report be adopted, and the committee* be
authorised to make application to Parliament, in the next
session, for an act to convey the requisite power, and also
for power to raise the funds necessary for the purpose, by
the creation of new shares, or otherwise. M. Banner ex-
plained that the buildings were now required of a con-
struction totally different from that which was necessary
when they were originally erected. An extension of the
newsroom had become absolutely necessary. No gentleman
c add doubt that the present room was ilia& quate for the
looked to the great increase of trade and commerce which
was taking place, and must be expected to continue, it
became urgently necessary that some steps, such as those
proposed, should be taken. This could not be done with
the present means at their disposal. Their contingent
fund, which was rather a liberal sum, so far as re-
pairs were concerned, was confined, by act of
*Parliament, to the purposes of repairs alone.
That fund could not, therefore, be made use of
for the purposes now in contemplation; and, indeed, even
if it could be so applied, it would be wholly inadequate and
in-ufficient for the extensive alterations required. He,
therefore, proposed that the meeting adopt the resolution
which he had read.
• Mr. Gill seconded the resolution.

Mr. Bolton, said, there could be no doubt that the
counting houses connected with the building, were the
least adapted for the pnrpose of any in the town, but there
was one difficulty in the way of effecting the improve-
ments to the extent proposed. Avery large portion of
the shares in the company, were held in trust for the
benefit of widows and orphans, and he could not see how
the trustees iu such cases could consent to anything
which might have the effect of, for the time,
reducing the income of the company. Among the plans
sent in, however, there was one which could be easily car-
ried out, through the contingent fund, and he thought it
would be better to adopt it than to go to Parliament.
Mr, J. A. Tobin replied that he was a trustee, and that
no such difficulty as that urged by Mr. Bolton presented
itself to his mind. He believed that so far from the
income of the company being diminished by the altera-
tions, it would be enormously increased. The revenue
they received at present was very inadequate to what they
might receive if the buildings were laid out in a proper
way, The adjoining property was leased at the rate of £4
the square yard. They had 4.000 square yards of ground
floor, which at that rate would give them £16,000 a year,
besides the revenue to be derived from the rest of the
buildings. They did not receive anything like that at
present, and there could not be the slightest fear of a
diminution of their revenue. (hear, hear.)
Mr. Banner observed that, in addition to the plan
referred to by Mr. Bolton being very.trivial, they were
advised by counsel that it could not be carried out
without the aid of an act of Parliament. As to a present
diminution of revenue, it need not be dreaded, because the
directors would have power to create new shares or to raise
the money in any other manner.
The resolution was then put and carried nein con.
The meeting then separated.

HOMCROYATRY IN PARIS —The Empress Eugenie has
been under homoeopathic treatment, and it is believed that
the possession of a prince of the house of Napoleon is due
to the restoration to health of the Empress under hoince)-
pathic treatment. The Emperor, after the recovery under
homoeopathic treatment of Marshal St. Arnaud, who subse-
quently fell at Alma, would have established a chair, a profes-
sorship of hommopathy, in the University of Paris, but the
faculty, to a man, threatened resignation if it were done,
and for the present the subject is postponed. The Em-
peror, however, has done justice to a homoeopathic
physician ; he has done that as an Emperor which Eng
land's Monarch cannot the without the consent of others—
he has created Dr. Mabbit a knight of the Legion of
Honour, as a reward of distinguished success in the treat-
ment of c:lolera. The lifoniteur, the organ of the French
government, publishes the following statement of his cures,
in comparison with those effected under allopathic treat-
ment : - Treated hoinceopathical:y, 2,239; cured, 2,069 ;
d:ed, 170 ; per cen'age .of deaths, 7i. Treated allopathi.
cally, 405,027 ; Cured, 254,788 ; died, 240.239 ; per
tentage of deaths, 40 Hom,ceopathic Record.
Loma ,HILL COLLIERY ERPLOSION.—EteraI weeks have
now elapsed since the occurrence of this fearful calamity,
and only about one-fifth of the bodies of the unfortunate
men killed have, as yet, been recovered, and it is to be
feared that some weeks at least will elapse before the whole
can be recovered. The falls of roof are'the great obstacle
which interpose as a barrier to the recovery of the bodies,
all of which will have to be carefully removed before the
work of recovery can be considered to be o.omplete. The
total number of bodies now recovered is 42, and it is
expected that more will be brought out this evening. It
seems to be"generally considered that the majority of the
workmen have been killed instantaneously, and never been
able to leave the place where they were working. At the
time of the explosion the great number would be in
their " benks" or working plices, and their first impulse
on the occurrence would be to run °et of them as speedily
'as possible, end get down the boardgates to the bottom of
the shaft. The bodies not being found in the boardgates,
they must be in the benks, and the inference is that from
falls of roof, or the prevalence of after damp, the miners
were prevented from leaving their work places, and any
inspection of these places has, as yet, been impossible,
owing to the devastation caused by the falls of roof.