The City Of Glasgow.- This unfortunate vessel was entirely given up in England at the time of our latest intelligence, and, we regret to say, on evidence too conclusive to admit of any hopes of her safety. The name of the City of Glasgow will henceforward be coupled with that of the President, among the memorials of the perils and the mysteries of the mighty deep.

The Wreck Of The Tayleur.- The wreck of this ill-fated ship was sold the 20th May, [1854], and realised only £480 ; but the circumstances connected with the sale, which we shall have a better opportunity of conveying to the public, tended very much to prevent legitimate speculation.

Plymouth, 26th May, [1854].- HMS Meander has arrived here from the Cape of Good Hope with the mails of the Australian (s.s.), which vessel was ashore at Green Point, Table Bay, 28th March, but got off on the 6th April without assistance, and would sail about the 17th ; the gold was at the Cape Bank ; cargo taken out - little damage. The passengers remained on board.

Penzance, May 16, [1854].- The Highbury, Digby, from Adelaide, South Australia, bound to London, has arrived off the Lizard Point, very leaky, with loss of bulwarks, chain-plates broken off, and part of cargo thrown overboard.

Leith, May 18, [1854].- During last night, the ship John Mitchell, on the berth here for Melbourne, caught fire, and has sustained considerable damage ; the beams of hold are burnt, and the foremast must be renewed. The cause of fire not known as yet.

Emigration To Australia.- Liverpool, Wednesday, May 24, [1854].

The John and Lucy, Captain Brewer. belonging to Messrs. James Baines and Co.'s Black Ball line of Australian packets, will sail for Melbourne on the 7th June ; at present she has all her berths (460) engaged.

The Star of the East, and the Oliver Lang, both belonging to the same line, and which will sail next month, are rapidly filling up.

The Fitz James, belonging to the White Star line; the Bloomer, to the Eagle line; the Morning Star, to the Golden line; the John Knox ; to the Thistle line ; the Phoenix, to the Liverpool line ; the Oracle, to the Temperance line ; and the Queen of the Seas, to the Fox line - all first-class vessels - are rapidly filling up with passengers, and will sail in the latter part of the present or early portion of the next month.

The screw steamship Great Britain. Captain Gray, having completed her repairs, will be ready for sea on the 10th proximo. She will have a full number of passengers. - Times.

The War.- It is stated in the Times that the Russians had a 60 gun frigate at Valparaiso in April, and were daily expecting three more of the same class, as well as an 80-gun line-of-battle ship, each with 200 troops on board. "The Russian officers," it is added, "say that there are fourteen vessels of war at Kamschatka, and boast of their superior force in those seas, and also of the mischief they will do to tile homeward bound gold ships." The safety of our whalers in the Pacific and about Bhering's Straits may be jeopardised.

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