The Press. — 1856-08-09 (London, England)

THE PRESS.  Petersburg, dated the 28th ult., says :—Sir Charles Napier intends leaving St. Petersburg shortly, but in the meantime he is the object of a curiosity which proves rather annoying to him sometimes. The other day the old seaman went to Pavlousk to hear Strauss' music and see the company, but he must soon have perceived that in proposing to himself to enjoy the rural scene in tranquillity he had reckoned without his host. No sooner had he arrived than ha found himself surrounded with a crowd of gazers, who never left him for one instant; if he began to walk, on walked the crowd ; if he sat down in any nook of the garden where he fancied he could be alone, the nook became in a twinkling the most thronged part, and groups gathered thick and dense. Sir Charles tried frequently to escape by changing the locality, but he did not succeed. Dodged from alley to alley by this curiosity so flattering to his vanity, but so annoying to him in his stroll, he fairly fled from the garden, and did not breathe freely again till he found himself a short time after in the train, which rapidly bore him away to St. Peters. burg. Even celebrity has its drawbacks, and Sir Charles Napier has experimentally convinced himself of the fact in a letter from St. Petersburg.  THE LAST ENGLISHMAN IN THE CRIMEA is said to have been one of the Land Transport Corps, who, long after the Crimea was given up and all had embarked, was found lying very drunk in one of the ditches. He was carried to the beach by six Cossacks, and pullel off to the last ship quitting the port. So tipsy was he that he had to be hoisted on board. A Roma= MURDER has been committed in Paris. The resident office-porter of the Societe d'Emigration Frarco-Americaine, in the Faubcurg St. Martin, some months since was deserted by a girl he loved and lived with. Last Saturday evening he brought her home with him, and in the middle of the night was met by the concierge coming down stairs, and dragging with him the naked headless body of the poor girl. He had literally cut her head off while she was sleeping. The concierge, horror-struck at the sight, rushed into his room for a sword. Poirier, the porter, cried out, " Arrest me if you like ; I have been revenged on a woman who has made me suffer a good deal, and I have no wish to escape." He, however, ran up stairs, jumped out of the second-floor window, and made off. The concierge hastened to summon the police. They arrived, and discovered in the bedroom a frightful scene of blood and horror. Poirier had evidently first stunned the poor girl while in bed and asleep with a blow from an iron balance, and then, holding her over a pail, with a blunt knife hacked and jagged her head off. In carrying the body out, his object was evidently to lay it in the street, though how he could have hoped to escape detection it is impossible to conceive. The police are in active search, but have as yet failed to secure him.  THE PROJECT FOR COLONISING THE ISLE OF SAR DINIA is engaging the attention of those who devote their time to economic studies, and investigations are being made into the capabilities of the island. The soil of Sardinia (says the Correspondance Italienne) is adapted to every kind of culture ; the island possesses some good natural harbours that only require deepening; the plains are magnificent, and which only require draining to render them highly fertile. The area amounts to 2,409,606 hectares, 511,000 of which belong to the public domain. The Government is busy making roads and founding schools. The island could receive a million and a half of immigrants without the slightest detriment to the oIJ inhabitants.