The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-25 00:00:00

M. Bun& has also retired in favour of M. Dari-

There hi, therefore, a great chance that these

candidates of the &a* and Presse will be elected
on Sunday week. It must be recollected, however,
that the government, relieved now from the anxiety
of the general elections, will concentrate all its
energies to prevent their return, as well as that of
General Cavaignac.
Count de Moray left St. Petersburg on Thursday
last to return to Paris. There appears to be no
truth in the reports that it is intended to appoint
another diplomatist to succeed him in Russia.

The result of the elections occasioned considerable
animation at the Hoarse to-day, although the die.
position to do business was somewhat checked by
doubts about tho intentions of the Bank of France.
The Bente rose 30e. for cub, and 10c. for account,
closing very firm at 68fr. 80e. and 68fr. 90c. Mobi-
lice rose 20fr. Lyons and Mediterranean railways
rose 15fr. each, and the other lines from 51r. to
7fr. 60c.

The most celebrated and the most successful
charlatan of Reis—Mengin, the itinerant pencil
seller—is just dead, and has left behind him a for-
tune of 400,000 fr. No one can have passed many
days in Paris within the last ten years without
having observed on the Place de la Bourse, the Place
du Ch&tclet, the Place de la Madeleine, or some
other open space, the conspicuous figure of a
tall handsome man, with a brass helmet and
plumes, and a beard—the very model of that of
Hudibras, "in shape and hue most like a tile"
—standing on the box of a light cart, and
haranguing a crowd. He wore a costly mantle of
green velvet embroidered with gold, and on
the fingers of his white hands were many
rings of great price. Behind him was a
squire who from time to time blew a trumpet
to attract public attention, and whose garment.
were only less splendid than that of his master.
The only end and aim of all this pomp and circum-
stoma was the sale of lead pencils at two sous a piece.
bruagln possessed in a high degree the art of con•
mending the attention of his audience. The langba
be raised were rare, but his face was full of promise
al something good coming, and thus he kept alive
curiosity. Though his speeches took • long time
in the delivery, he was essentially a man of few
words. He made long pauses which were filled up
by pantomime, and making grotesque sketches on a
slate to show the quality of his pencils. The sub-
stance of every one of his discourses was that he had
originally set up in a quiet shop, but finding
that he could not get a living in it, he
had resolved to become a quack, and that
from the hour of his taking that resolution he had
done well. " Why " he would say "do I fig myself up
in this ludicrous costume ? I will tell you candidly ;
because going about in this dress I sell a great
many pencils, and if I stayed at home in a ware-
house coat I should sell very few. lam a quack, I
admit, but I am an honest one, for I sell a good
article, and if you want a pencil I doubt whether
you will get as good a one anywhere else for the
money." The speech was always followed by nume-
rous demands, which he supplied from cases packed
in the body of the cart. Of late he was wont to
speak of the large fortune he had made, and be
would not unfrequently turn out the contents of
several rouleaux of gold, and count them in the
public view. He was a remarkably healthy-looking
man, and could not have been more than forty years
old, but he was carried off by a fit of apoplexy.
The Emperor will be accompanied to Plombares,
it is said, by M. Mocquard, his private secretary,
General Fleury, aide•de-camp, and M. de Latour
d'ftuvergne. His Majesty intends to pass forty days
at that place, and as far as possible to free himself
from the care of business.
Count do Kisseleff has left Paris for Eissengen,
where he will pass some time. He is accompanied
by M. do Grote, secretary of the embassy.

PROJECTED MEETING OF THE SOVE.
REIGNS OF AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.

"We learn that the Emperor Francis Joseph,"
says a letter from Vienna, in the German Journal
of Frankfurt," will proceed to Toplitz at the com-
mencement of July, to visit the King of Erma*
with whom ho will remain two or three days. Count
de Buol and M. de Manteuffel will accompany their
sovereigns, and important political questions will
in all probability be discussed."