The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-23 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

LtvaleooL, MAY 22. Sales today:—Great Eastern, 371 1—
Lancashire d Yorkshire, 1191 1 l9l 4--London and North
Western. 110 117 161 171 161 1 ! 1 W—Midland, 121— I
North Eastern 'Berwick'. capital stock, 108—North Staffordshire,
74—South Emitern. 714 --Lancaster and Carlisle. 212—Buffalo and
Lake Huron, 411-16 1-164 1-18 4-6 rand Trunkof Canada,l9l 1—
Erie. 42 1-I'nited States Five-Twenties, 6t}—Great Luxem-
bourg shares, 12 1-lb Eastern Exchange Bank Limited-, 31 d
Mercantile and Exchange Bank ;Limited„ 10,1—Royal Insurance,
3,1 p—Liverpool Exchange, 261—National Steam Limited', 81
9c. d —West India and Pacific Steam, 41 d.
MAitCHIt3ITR, MAY 22. —The market was quiet, and prices ge-
nerally lower. Alliance Bank 'Limited 11 d.—Consolidated
Bank Limited', 31 p.—Eries, 421 2 I—Great, F.aatern. 37
Great Northern A, 132—Grand Trunk of Canada, 194 1 c. /
Great Western, 53—General Credit 'Limited,. 3 d.-1111inOis. 754
6—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 120191—London and North West-
ern. 1161 16 I—Manchester and County Bank ,limited'. 21 p.
—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 6a4. I 1 I—Ditto,
Redeemable Pref.. p.—Metropolitan, 1244 5 North Eastern,
Berwicka, 10.84—South Eastern. 701 l I 11 1 701 I—Thames
and Mersey Marine Insurance Limited', 5 116 p.—West Hartle-
pool. 74 -Credit Fonder. 3 d —Virginia Six per Cent. 431.
BIRMINGHAM. MAY 22. Business done: Great Western Rail-
way 'Oxford First Guaranteed.- Six per Cents. at 116.: Birming-
ham Banking Company shares at 24 ; Birmingham Joint Stock
Banks at 371 Birmingham aud Midland Bank at IGO ; Lloyd's
Bank -Limited at 91 pm. : Birmingham Financial at par Mid-
i land Financial at / dia. ; Smith Staffordshire Water Works at 01 ;
I and Mantis Metal shares at 1 dia.

The first volume of the " Memoirs of Maximilian 1
1., Emperor of Mexico," has just appeared at Leipsic. It
contains an account of a tour made through Italy in the
year 1851.
EASTERN BENGAL RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY. )
The ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of this
company was held at the London Tavern this day ; Mr. J.
Leith in the chair. The report presented by the
directors showed an increase of 22i per cent.
over that of the corresponding half year of 1864.
The Chairman congratulated the meeting on the progress
of the undertaking, the receipts showing an increase, not-
withstanding the failure of the jute crop, which was A
great source of their merchandise traffic. He moved that
the report be adopted. Sir F. Halliday seconded, and the
motion was agreed to. The proceedings terminated with
a vote of thanks to the directors and Chairman.
SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF HYDROPGOBIA.—We
regret to have to record a use of hydrophobia in this
neighbourhood. La our last we mentioned that a dog,
which showed signs of rabies, hadescsped from Mr. Higgs's,
of Prescott, communicating the disorder to other dogs, and
doing other mischief. We learn that about a month ago
a servant girl in Mr. Higgs's service was tying up the dog
in question when the animal bit her on the right thumb.
She experienced no serious results until yesterday (Tues-
day) week, when her thumb, arm, and chest became con-
siderably swollen, accompanied with great heat, pain, red-
ness, stiffness,and numbness, the arm being so stiff that she
Iwas almost unable to move it. Mr. Higgs sent for Mr.
Pope, surgeon, of this town, who saw the girl on Thursday,
and found her evidently suffering from hydrophobia, the
result of the bite of the dog. On Friday night she became
very ill, biting and tearing at almost everything near her,
and suffering much from convulsions. She repeatedly
declared that she heard the dog growling at her ; indeed,
she displayed all the symptoms of this dreaded disease.
As surgical writers on the subject do not lay down any
grecific mode of treatment in cases of this kind, Mr. Pope
determined to cause profuse salivation in the patient, with
the view of neutralising the poisonous character of the
saliva of hydrophobia. This is a course of procedure not
often pursued,but its beneficial effects were soon apparent.
On Sunday the convulsions, and the spasms, from which
the poor girl also suffered, had ceased, and there now ap-
pears to be every prospect of her ultimate recovery.
Wolverhampton Chronicle.