A WOMAN SHOT BY HER LOVER, AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER.—On Saturday night, the daughter of a respectable licensed-victualler, Mr. Thomas Barr, landlord of the Seven Stars inn, Dudley, was shot by her sweetheart. The young man was named John Dance; was about twenty-five years of age, and eldest son of Mr. John Dance, landlord of the Railway Tavern, Petersfield and was first cousin to his intended victim. It is said that Miss Barr, as well as her parents, to some extent, discouraged his pretensions, and this is alleged to have caused him uneasiness and excitement of mind; so much so, that upon several occasions he has been known to threaten to take her life if she would not consent to have him. On Saturday night he came to the house about ten o’clock, and was observed to be rather tipsy, and was ordered to leave which he did. About twelve o’clock, however, the front door of Mr. Barr's house being closed, Dance entered by the back-door and walked up to Miss Barr, who was then going along the passage leading from a back room to the bar. Pulling a pistol from his pocket, he fired it off close to Miss Barr’s person, the shot taking effect in her neck and lower Jaw. She at once fell to the ground fearfully wounded, and in a state of insensibility. In another moment a second shot was heard, and the unfortunate young man lay dead upon the floor by the side of his intended victim. He had placed the pistol close to his left ear, the shot penetrating the brain. Death was instantaneous. A surgeon was at once sent for, and dressed the wounds which had been inflicted upon Miss Barr. On Wednesday morning she was alive, but there was scarcely a hope of her ultimate recovery. A verdict has been returned of ‟Temporary Insanity.” Deceased, it appears, suffered an injury of the head some years ago; and, moreover, he was intemperate. Part of the jaw and neck of Miss Barr was carried away.