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FIR* SETTING-IN OF A RUSSIAN WINTER.—It is a mistake which almost all new comers make, to brave the cold too long ; _allowing it to penetrate before they take measures against it. Now the secret is, never to feel it. 'fake preventive measures ;,arm against it ; never let it lay

LOSS THE SOLWAY STEAMER. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. • The Lady, Mary Wood steam-packet, Capt. Lewis, arrived Irons Lisbon, and brings the di,astrous and melancholy intelligence of the wreck of the Solway steam-ship. This ill- , fated vessel is the third that has been totally lost belong

This bill passed through committee, and was ordered to be reported. The second reading of the Forged Exchequer Bills Bill was fixed for Tuesday. -The house then adjourned at half-past five o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS—THURSDAY. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. The Duke of ARGYLL withdrew the noti

JAN. 18.—The cargo of the Brothers, from Calcutta, we noticed last week. The vessel from Lombock is laden with 5,045 bags Rice. The Westminster brings 110 casks Oil, 1,37 S brls Flour, 310 casks Seed, Cheese, and Sundries. The others are laden with Beans, Cloverseed, Eggs, Apple

From Alexandria we have received letters, by the Oriental, up to the 26th of November. They inform us of two official communications addressed to the resident consul by the Hon. Captain Waldegrave, of the Revenge. The second was made to M. Schulz, Consul of the Netherlands in th

Mary Ann Tucker, the young woman who has been committed to the county-gaol by the coroner's warrant on the charge of murdering her husband and brother by administering arsenic to them in their food (some particulars of which have already appeared in our paper), manifests the mos

Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of England, from the 15th of Sept. to the Bth of December, 1840, both inclusive, published pursuant to the Act, 3 and 4 William IV., cap. 98 : LIABILITIES. Circulation £16,446,000 Securities Deposits 6,337,000 Bu