The Sun. — 1864-11-25 (London, England)

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOL DINNER.— the Duke of Cambridge has kindly consented to take the chair at the annual dinner, which will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-stroet, in the latter part of December next.  THE PLAISTOW MURDER,—It is stated that, through information furnished by Mrs Warren, in whose house the murdered man Fuhrhttp resided on his first arrival in this country, some additional, evidence has been obtained in support of the prosecution against Kohl, and will he adduced before the magistrates at Ilford to-morrow, Saturday. The witnesses previously examined attended at the Home-office, at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, with Superintendent Howie, of the K division of metropolitan police, and had an interview with the legal gentlemen who will conduct the prosecution on the part of the Government,:with the object, it is stated, of confirming the depositions already taken. adverse verdict of the coroner's jury, appears to be more deeply impressed with the critical position in which ho is placed. The prisoner, it is stated, since the  A ROMAN ALUANAcK. Among the interesting discoveries which are being daily made at Pompeii that of a Roman almanack deserves particularly to be recorded. It is engraved On a white marble slab found in the vicinity of the Isis gate, and contains the indication of the months arranged by threes in vertical columns. Each religion column is beaded with the sign of the zodiac pertaining to the month it contains, and curious indications concern. ing the agriculture and interspersed here and there. At the top of each column, the under the sign of of the Romans are zodiac, there is the name of the month and the number of days. Next follow the risme, which during eight months of the year begin on the fitth day, a circumstance explaining why they were called Quihtance in those months, while in the remaining their beginning on the seventh day. The idus are not ones they received the name marked because the interval between them and the nonce of septimanw on account of was invariably seven days. The number of diurnal and nocturnal hours is also marked on the almanac, the integers being expressed in common Roman figures, and the fractions by an s for semi, or by small horizontal lines for the quarters, The equinoxes and the summer solstice are also marked, while opposite to the winter solstice there are the words Itiemis tnittunt (the beginning of winter.) Next comes the agriouhura; chapter, in which the farmer is reminded of the chief operations to be performed each month. The religious section is not the least interesting. It tells us which of the gods is the tutelar one of the month—it also gives us the principal religious feetivals, and advises the farmer, it he would have a good harvest, not to neglect the worship of the protecting divinities. At the top of the marble slab Apollo is seen driving the car of the sun, and at the bottom Ceres is seen reaping a field. From all this information put into the almanack, it was evidently intended for the lure' population. It has now b.,en placed in the Museum of Naples.-Galignani's Messeiwer,  SAD TERMINATION TO THE SWISS POISONING CASE —Dr. Demme, who, as well as Madame Trumpy, was recently acquitted of the charge of poisoning his friend M. Trumpy, after a long trial at Berne, disappeared about a fortnight,eince, and it has now be,n discovered that he and his bride, Flora Trumpy, the wife, has become hopelessly insane. Some formal obstacles were opposed to the union of the bethrothed, and without the knowlege of relatives, they proceeded to Freiburg, and thence to Ouchy on the Lake of Geneva, in Which, after much search, their bodies have now been found. The unfortunate doctor and his young bride appear to have undertaken the jowney without pecuniary resources, and indeed it would seem from the worn condition of the young lady's boots, that she and the doctor had walked some distance. The town of Beirno and the whole of Switzerland deeply deplore this melancholy termination of the proceedings which have so deeply interested all classes of the country for a long time past. The Demme family have issued the following notification of the calamity :—" Friends and enemies will receive the startling intelligenoe that, according to a farewell letter, Dr. Herrmann Demme and his bride Flora, united in faithful love, have sought and found a common grave in the depths of the Lake of Geneva. May enmity be struck dumb at this grave, but rosy love offer silent sympathy wits our sorrow,"