AND EAST CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND NEWS. NO. 440 - Eighth Week in Quarter Registered for Transmission ABroad. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1874. PRICE 1D. _________________________________________________ CUMBERLAND ASSIZES / NISI PRIUS COURT - Wednesday (Before MR. BARON AMPHLETT.) There were 6 civil causes set down for trial, but none of them are of any interest to this district. DOBSON v. BREW - SEDUCTION. This was an action brought by the plaintiff GEO. DOBSON, fishmonger, Whitehaven, to recover from the defendant, THOMAS BREW, shoemaker and clogger, of the same town, damages which he had sustained by the loss of his daughter's services, by reason of her seduction by the defendant. MR. C. RUSSELL, Q.C. and MR. THURLOW appeared for the plaintiff, and MR. ASPINALL, Q.C., and MR. BRUCE for the defendants. After the opening statements of plaintiff's counsel, the first witness called was LIZZIE DOBSON, the daughter of the plaintiff, who said she had known the defendant since the 23rd of August, 1871. She knew the date, because she put it on a piece of paper. They kept company till July, 1872, when they quarrelled; but on the 15th October, 1872, they came together again and kept company. He seduced her on the 6th of November, 1871, having often promised her marriage. After BREW knew she was about to become a mother, he asked her to go to DR. BONAR's to ask for some medicine, for an improper purpose. He gave her £5. She went to DR. BONAR. She told him what condition she was in and who had sent her. DR. BONAR said he durst not give her anything, and he gave her nothing. Had never known DR. BONAR up to that time except that he was assistant to DR. HENRY their family doctor, and nothing improper ever took place between them. BREW said he would get something; and he subsequently did so; but she did not take it. BREW wanted her to go to DR. BONAR's on the 14th of February. He taxed her with intimacy with that gentleman, and drew a knife across her throat. Under his threats she said she had been with DR. BONAR; but it was not true. In March, BREW again cast imputations upon her, and drawing out his pocket knife, threatened to stab her. She would not repeat the false admission which she had made before. She afterwards heard that while this interview took place, there was a man named WATTLEWORTH within hearing in another room. (Cross-examined): Witness firmly denied the imputations about DR. BONAR's intimacy with her. She denied having paid frequent visits to his lodgings, or ha**** gone to the theatre with him. Was never in the Cumberland tavern in her life, and was never at the Indian King with him. Gave the £5 back to BREW after she had been to DR. BONAR's. Witness was asked whether, when before the magistrates on the affiliation summons, she had said she supposed her father had given her the medicine for a certain purpose. At first she denied having said so; but upon being pressed she admitted that she had given evidence to that effect. She now added that she believed her father had given her the preparation for that purpose. Re-examined by MR. RUSSELL: Had been to MRS. FIELD's about dresses. DR. BONAR had been to her father's house representing DR. HENRY. By the Judge: He father gave the medicine while she was pregnant. MR. ASPINALL said he would not suggest that the father, who seemed a respectable man, had given it for an improper purpose. After hearing the evidence for the defence, the jury found for plaintiff, - damages £25.