The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-23 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto 867 50 .. --
Lyons and Mediterranean 877 50 .. 877 50
Geneva 4OO .. 400
Southern 5lB 75 .. 518 75
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard

THE BOMBAY MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Massilia, Capt. Black, with the heavy portion
of the above mails, has arrived.
She brings 80 passengers.
The Massilia brings 2 packages of specie, value
£400; pearls, value 98,000 rupees; 52 cases of gum,
and 80 packages of sundries.
She sailed from Alexandria on the 10th of
June, Malta 13th, and Gibraltar en the 18th. In
the Mediterranean she experienced fine weather,
with strong head winds ; and from Gibraltar mode-
rate winds, with a heavy north-west swell.
At Alexandria, the Egyptian fleet and French
brig-of-war Sentinelle.
At Malta were her Majesty's ships Marlborough,
St. Jean d'Acre, Cressy, Queen, and James Watt.
They were, however, supposed to leave on the
16th inst. for the Italian coast.
The Hannibal was at Palermo.
The Agamemnon sailed for Messina and Palermo
on the 13th inst.
The London, Neptune, and Renown were at
Naples ; the Gannet at Athens.
The Exmouth sailed from Malta on the 11th, for
Beyrout.
The Mohawk sailed on the 9th for the coast of
Syria. _ _ _

The Assurance was at Malta under repairs.
The Caradoc arrived from Palermo on the 13th,
and returned again the same day.
The intrepid, screw gunboat, was at Malta, also
the Hibernia.
The Medina was expected to sail in a few days
on surveying service.
At Corfu were the Victor Emmanuel, Liffey,
and Alacrity.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Alhambra was at Malta, also the Ceylon, which
left on the 13th at 9 p in. with the Calcutta and
China mails.
At Gibraltar were her Majesty's ships Quail,
Lapwing, and Scourge.
On the 9th inst., above Malaga, the schooner
Savage spoke the brig Sarah Jane (of Salcombe),
rom Cardiff, bound to Alexandria, 29 days out, all
well. On the 11th inst., off Malaga, the schooner
Arrow, of Brixham, spoke the schooner Ann Maria,
of Brixham, bound to England; all well on board.
Her Majesty's troopship Megmra, with invalids
for England, left Gibraltar on the 16th.
The Royal Victoria Yacht Club schooner Sylph
arrived at Gibraltar on the 15th, from a cruise in
the Mediterranean, bound to England. She lost
jibboom, B:c., in the late gale—otherwise, all well.
The American barque Liberty and about 42
other vessels were either cruising or at anchor at
the back of the Rock,
The levant _Herald says :—" Letters from va-
rious parts of the interior confirm the intelligence
as to the abundance and excellence of the silk pro-
duce of this season. Reports to this effect have
been received from Bosnia, Adrianople, Salonica,
Broussa, Smyrna, and elsewhere."
Gibraltar exchanges were quoted :—London, 90
days's date, 50-7,- to 501 ; Paris, of. 30c. ; Marseilles,
Of. 31c. ; Genoa, sf. 31c. ; Madrid, eight days' sight,
dis. ; Cadiz, par.

OURDEFENCES AND OUR DEFENDERS

" A Hertfordshire Incumbent," in a letter to
the Times, of this morning, says :—The answers of
Lord Overstone to the National Defence Commis-
sion will have been read with the attention which
the reputation of their author secures for every pro-
duction of his pen, and -will doubtless effect their
object among the educated classes.
But, unfortunately, the great mass of the people
are slow to conprehend that ruin to the possessors
of property is almost a trifle compared with the
utter misery that a national calamity such as that
contemplated by the Commissioners would inflict
upon themselves. In such convulsions tiie capitalist
is indeed reduced to poverty, but the poor perish
by myriads of siarvation. Allow me briefly to
point out some of t he more obvious of t he misfortunes
that would befal these, were any occupation of the
metropolis by a victorious enemy ever to take place,
and the industrial forces of the country to be con-
sequently paraltzA.
Most inhabitants of our provincial towns have
had some experience of the wide-spread wretched-
ness which results from even such a trivial misfor-
tune as thestoppage of a local bank. The neighbour-
ing small farmers at once dismiss as many of their
labourers as they can possibly get rid of, and those
who are a little better off dispense with the agricul-
tural implements they had intended to purchase, or
defer the projected drainage of their wet lands to a