The Sun. — 1864-01-15 (London, England)

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 exceedingly 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 business 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 daughter 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, commencing under the left ear and extending across the throat, severing all the muscles down to the vertebral. 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 children 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.