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PRICE SEVEN-PENCE.

Orange is expected from St. Petersburgh towards the le
ginning of next month.
DECEMBER 22.—Yesterday and to-day the Chamber
discussed the p!oject of law relative to what is called
the deferred debt, which. after a very anim rted &bee,
was adopted by a majority of 64 votes to SO.
The debt in question was to be paid in instalments
in 26 years, lots being drawn every year to decide which
of the bonds should be paid. As the uncertainty with
respect to the fate of the bonds allowed considerable
room for sreculation, k was proposed, and is now de-
cided by the new plan, to have the lotteries for all die
`25 yell s draw,' in the first year,by which it will be deter-
mined, and known at once, in what year any particular
number will be paid off.
The central section has made its report on the pro-
ject of law, proposing changes on the tariff of import
and export dude!. The President proposed to fix the
4th of Jaiivary for the debate on this law, which was
agreed to.
The Prince of Orange, who was to leave St. Peters-
burgh in the middle of this month, will return to th.tt
city in the spring, for his august consort, who will spend
the winter in that capital.

WIN iER ASSIZES.
or--
KINGSTON, DECEMBER 30.
George Dueffield was indicted for feloniously receiv-
ing, on the 10th of June „last,. in the parish of Saint
Olave, Southwark, knowing to have been stolen, a 201.
bank post bill. a 20/. bank-note, three 10/. bank-notes, ,
ten 51, bank-notes, and other notes and monies, which
had been burglariOusly stolen on the 9th of June, from
the dwelling-house of Mr. Haines, steward to Earl Cow-
per, at Hertingfordbury, in the county of Herts. Tire
trial lasted from nine o'elock in the morning till six jn
the evening.
The case was launched by the evidence of the convic-
tion of Jamea Davis and others, at Hertford Assizes, in
July last, oMe burglary and robbery in the house
,of
Mr. Haines, on the 9th of June, when bank-notes and
other monies to the amount of 1,8681. 13s. 11d. were
stolen by a patty of eight men, who had planned the
robbery at a public-house called the Horse-shoe and
Wheat-sheaf, in Melior-street, Borough, then kept by a
man named Watson, since deceased. One of the men
concerned in the robbery was Benjamin Jacobs, for-
merly a baker at Kingston. This man was now a prin-
cipal witness, and he gave a minute detail of the cir-
cumstances of the robbery. His evidence, as far as it
affected the prisoner Dudfield, was, that on the morn-
ing of the 10th of June, after the robbery, most of the
gang assembled again between seven and eight o'clock,
at the Horse-shoe and Wheat-sheaf. Two of the party
were sent to Dudfield's house, in Shire-lane, and shortly
afterwards be arrived, and was introduced into a pri-
vate room Op stairs, where notes to the amount of
1,0061. were produced. He was i:rfotmed by one of
the thieves that the property came from Mr. Haines 's
house, and that he had better be careful of the notes.
At first he bid 7001. for the whole quantity, bat at
length he agreed to:give/50/. and the thieves consented
to sell them for that amount. The notes were delivered
to him, and two of the men accompanied him home b
receive the money. He however save them only 3501.
prothising to bring the remainder m abndt an hour and
a half. In fact, the robbers never received any more
money from him. Mrs. Watson, the widow of the per-
son who kept the public-house, swore positively that
Dudfield was at her husband's house-with the thieves
on that morning. He changed a sovereign with her in
payment of one of-the glasses of brandy which the
party had had. The course which the case for the pro-
secution then took, was in tracing the stolen property
to the possession of the prisoner. It was proved, that at
twelve o'clock, on the night of the 10th of June, the
prisoner, and an elderly man unknown, arrived at the
George Inn, Baldock, by the Boston coach, and slept
in a double-bedded room. Next day they wentstogether
in a post-chaise to Royston, and thence to Cambridge,
and returned together to London the same night, and
were set down at a public-hoase in Chancery-lane. At
Royston, the elderly man alone exchanged Bank of
England notes to the amount of 150/. at the banking-
house of Messrs. Fordham and Co. for 51. notes of their
bank. At Cambridge, the same man exchanged Bank
of England notes to a large amount, at the tanking-
houses of Foster and Co. Fisher and Co. and Barker
and Co. for their notes, respectively. Members of these
several establishments were examined; but as they had
omitted to bring' their books, no satisfactory evidence
could be given of the identity of the notes which the
old man above-mentioned had exchanged. The bank
post-bill for 201. was, however, -clearly identified by a
clerk from the house of Foster and Co. A 201. note,
two. tens, and six fives, produced, were sworn to by Mr.
Haines and Mr. Johnson, who assisted him in collecting
Lord Cowper's rents, as part of the stolen property,
from marks which they had made. These notes had passed
through the hands of the Cambridgeshire bankers, but
were-41ot otherwise identified. Between the hours of
nine and ten, on the morning of the 12th June, Cam-
bridgeshire and Royston notes to the amount of 5501;
were exchanged at the banking-houses of Messrs. Jones,
Lloyd, and Co. Messrs. Grote, Prescott, and Co. and
Messrs. Currie, Raikes,:and Co. for one 200/. three 1001.
,and a 501. Bank of England note. At two of these
houses, the notes were exchanged by a female, who
gave the name of 66 Williams," and at the third by a
man whom the witness firmly believed to be the prisoner
Dudfield. At ten o'clock a city offi:er, nan e 1 Ilesketh,
saw Dudfield standing under the piazza at the south
end of the Royal Exchange. He missed him for a mo-
ment, and in a few minutes afterwards he f and him
in the Inteller's office in the Bank of England, where
the.prisoner had just 'Wei ef:l- from Mr. Kingston, t're
c'erk,sso sovereigns, in exchange for the identical £OOl.
tine.: ICOI. and 501. bank-nCtes which had been paid by
the banking-houses last at.ovt.mentioned, in lieu of
provincial notes of the Royston and CaMbridge banks.
The prisoner told Mr. Kingston that his name was Wil-
hams, and .that he lived in Prescott-street, Goodman's-
fieles. This -name and address were %%Tann oa the
note, The • officer, knowing that this name address '
were false, immediately took the prisoner into custody,
and *found 550 sovereigrs'in a handkerchief in Iris hand.. ,
This is an outline of the case proved in evidence.
The prisoner, in his defence, declared solemnly that