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

STATE OP TRADE.

BRADFORD, Jan. 14.—There is very little wool
changing hands today. Though the price of cotton
is drooping, the quotations for wool remain exceed-
ingly firm, with a slight tendency upward. There
is a steady business doing in worsted yarns. Prices
are rather easier. Orders are running out ; but
there ia a considerable new business doing for the
home trade, a great number of small orders being
placed by merchants. The foreign merchants are
doing little or nothing, the Holstein question being
still an obstacle to business. In pieces there is a
good business doing at very firm prices. The home
houses are doing an active business in Winceys.
There is a large business doing for America, both in
Italian cloths and coburgs. The fancy makers are
so busy that they decline many orders offered.
LEICESTER, 13th.—The hosiery trade continues
quiet, and there has not been much. doing in any
department during the week. Business, however,
is always dull at this time of the year. There are
no stocks of any kinds of goods on hand. The wool
market is quiet, but high prices are yet quoted,
with no aupearanco of a decline. Yarns maintai❑
very high rates, and spinners are restricting their
productions to the actual demand.
NOTTINGHAM, 13th.—The lace trade continues
dull, and there has not been much doing during the
Past few days in cotton goods. There are a few
orders in the market for plain stiff nets, as also for
Mechlin quillings. The fancy trade remains quiet.
There is rather more doing in black siik laces and
edging, and more is expected to be done in those
articles shortly. The demand for silk Mechlins and
silk quillings is without change. Stocks of both
silk and cotton goods are very low. In hosiery
there is not much alteration. A fair amount of
business has been done in some branches, and busi-
ness generally is healthy. Yarns aro firm, and have
an upward tendency.

Murder and Suicide at Ipswich.

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 cat 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-
tebral. 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.