The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-15 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA.—A moderate amount of business has been done
in common congou at 12d per lb.
SUGAR.—OnIy a limited number of transactions have
been reported in West India at barely previous quotations.
In the refined market dried goods are without charge in
value.

COFFEE,—The dealings have been to an average extent,
and both Plantation and Native Ceylon have maintained
former prices.
RICE,—The operations have been on a limited scale,
without any material alteration to notice.
TALLOW—Business has been very dull, and the few
bargains entered into have led to a slight reduction on
prices. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 41s 6d ; March deli-
very, 41a 6d, and last 3 months, 458 per cwt.

WHY THE EMPRESS ASSURED HER LIFE.—
It is quite true, as of late stated in the newspapers,
that her Imperial Majesty has recently assured her life in
five English offices for £BO,OOO, involving an annual charge
in premiums of about £2,500; but the meritorious purpose
of the act has yet to be stated. It is well known that the
Empress was the foundress, and is, at this hour, the
sole supporter of the following noble charitable insti-
tutions :—" Maison Eugenio Napoleon," "Prete de l'En-
fance au Travail," (better known as " La Societe du Prince
Imperial,") and the " Caisse do Secours pour l'Armee de
Terre et de Mer." The Empress is very naturally appre-
hensive that these good works may materially suffer when-
ever death—that black camel, as the Arabs finely put it,
call her hence,
awnhdi,chthkerneefeolrse,"sheevehrays mtahnus's —may
Ythrough the in-
strumentality of life assurance, to permanently endow
them. the Empress has named the Prince Imperial
as her almoner, and at her demise it would become
his sacred duty to administer the large fund thus created,
and to take these merciful bodies under his fostering care.
It it is said that the Empress has also effected assurances
for the same good end with several Belgian and German
offices. On account of the greater risk to which the life of
the _Empress is reckoned to be exposed as compared with
with ordinary mortals—witness, for instance, the late
horrible plot to assassinate the Emperor—increased rates of
premium hare been charged by the contracting (dice !
The London Mirror. •

Yesterday morning a jobbing shoemaker, named
James Gooding, who lived in a narrow back street,
called Albert-street, in the parish of St. Clement,
Ipswich—one of the poorest parts of the town—
murdered one of his children and then cut his own
throat. It appears that at about half-past eight in
the morning Gooding's next door neighbour, named
Norfolk, was alarmed by hearing Gooding's wife
scream out, and on running to his door she cried
out to him, "For God's sake, Mr. Norfolk, come
in—my husband has killed himself and the dear
child." Norfolk ran up-stairs, and found
the bodies of Gooding and his little daugh-
ter Elizabeth, about six years of age, lying
on the floor weltering in their blood, which
flowed from wounds in the throat of each. Although
scarcely more than a minute could have elapsed
since the commission of the act, both father and
daughter appeared dead, and Mr. W. Adam, jun.,
surgeon, who was almost immediately on the spot,
found life to be quite extinct. At the knee of the
father lay a shoemaker's knife, covered with blood,
and evidently the instrument which had been used.
The unhappy father appears to have first cut the
throat of his child, who was completely a cripple,
having the use of neither arms nor legs, and was
besides imbecile and unable to speak, and then to
have inflicted a frightful gash in his own, com-
mencing under the left ear and extending across the
throat, severing all the muscles down to the ver-
tebrue, An inquest was held upon the bodies in the
afternoon by Mr. S. B. Jackaman, the coroner for
the borough, at which evidence was given which
went to show that the deceased man had for years
been in an indifferent state of health, and that
since September last year, when he lost three chil-
dren in one week of diphtheria, he has been in a
desponding state of mind. He was a remarkably
well-informed man for his position in life, and up
to that time he had been a very sober man, but
latterly had indulged a good deal in drink ; he
always, however, spoke of the deceased child in
terms of the greatest affection, and said he only
lived for her. One of the witnesses said when
Gooding gave way to drink he was unable to eat,
and that during the last fortnight he had eaten next
to nothing. The jury thought it desirable that the
widow of the deceased should be examined, and the
inquiry was adjourned till to-day in order that the
poor woman might have time to become somewhat
composed, she being at present in so distracted a
state that it would be impossible to examine her.