The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1865-09-30 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE OF A BRIDE DURING THE HONEYMOON. An inquest was held on Friday, at Uppington, near Stamford, to enquire into the cause of a death which occurred there under peculiar circumstances. On the 14th inst., Richard Barsby, aged 64, was married to Elizabeth Kirkby, a widow, four years his junior. From the evidence adduced at the inquest, it appeared that Barsby, who obtains a living by out-door manual labour, was on Wednesday engagetl in his ordinary oz. cupation, leaving his newly-married wife at home. On returning at night he was horrified to find his bride a corpse. She lay reclining in bed in her night clothes, and was quite cold. In the room was found a couple of tumblers—one containing water, and the bottom of the other being covered with a precipitate, supposed to have been formed by the evaporstion of laudanum. A letter was found containing the deceased's wedding ring. lb was as follows :  My dear friends, I am broken-hearted and cannot vast any more On this earth. I hope God will forgive me. Nobody can tell what I have gone through this last year. Ilubbard Will make a coffin. There's a sovereign and some silver, and someone most let Mary her daughter! know my unhappy end, for! could not bear myself any longer. I never thought I should come to this untimely end hut I cannot eat nor sleep, and the thoughts of being married I could not bear, as know I should never be happy any more in this world I think. What a trouble it will be to my dear boy r a church missionary in Rupert's Land) if this sad news ever gets to him. lam no use in this world, for I cannot work. I might have been happy; but it's no use now. lam quite brokenhearted. I hope the Lord will forgive me for all I have done wrong. Good bye and God bless you. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased destroyed herself by poison while in a state of unsound mind.  PANIC IN A LONDON Sunday night, just as the clergyman was closing the service by prayer, the congregation of St. Andrew's, Holborn, was thrown into a painful state of excitement owing to a man in one of the aisles screaming out at the top of his voice "Fire." A sudden and simultaneous rush for the doer was made, and in the confusion which prevailed many persons were thrown down, and some injured. The scene behind the choir, devoted to the accommodation of the children belonging to the parochial school, was most harrowing. No sooner had the cry of fire been raised than the children rose in a body and rushed one after the other to make good their escape from the building, some of the girls jumping from the gallery on to the stairs. The chonsters and teachers tried to assure them that no fire had taken place in the church, or near it, but they still continued to rush out tumbling over one another, and one of the girls who jumped from the gallery on to the stairs was much hurt. A young lady, who was in the body of the church, was pressed down by the people, and was obliged to be removed in a cab; whilst several ladies, who were unable from the crowd in the passages to leave their pews, fainted. So great did the alarm become, that the Royal Society's escape was sent for from Hatton-garden station, when it was clearly ascertained that there was not the least grounds for the terror which had been so wantonly created. It is to be regretted that during the confusion which prevailed the alarmist got clear off; but, having left his hat in the church, it may possibly lead to his identity.