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that furnished by Italy or France, where it has been so long the staple of the country.- Yet the sample received, has shown that M. DHomergue's lessons have been addressed to willing and apt scholars, who will, it is hoped, soon equal the reelers ot France or Italy.

 It may now be added, that an intelligent gentleman has tried a sample ot this silk, in the different processes ot winding, throwing, and dying, and the result is highly satisfacto- ry; so much so, that he thinks fine field is open for the culture of the article in Ameri- ca. The quality he considers superior to In da silk generally, and fully equal to Fruli or Treat. He had some of it dyed black, (the colour which most tries the silk) and which it takes very well. And concludes, by sug- gcsting some improvements in the reeling /; which a little more practice may soon effect.

 The present importation is a mere sample, being a very small package ; and was pro- duced Gas the correspondent of the Times states) in Pennsylvania, and reeled from the cocoons in MT Duponcean's Filature at Phila- delphia, under the direction of M. D'Ho- mergue. It has been submitted to some of the best judges in this country, who think it is a very fair beginning. The texture is finer than the Italian silk, and produces larger return from the same quantity of cocoons.

 Some silk from the same lauufc mas been boiled, dyed, and woven into very fine stuff, in America although not thrown, as they have no throwing mills at present there.

 Should the production of silk increase as ra- pidy in America, as cotton has done in the last 80 years, it will become an article of great consequence in our trade with that country. The Americans sending the raw material, and taking back the manufactured article in return, as is BOW the case with cotton.

 The white mulberry tree and silk worm are said to succeed in almost all the States of the Union, and the latter can be brought forward at the time the former is in leaf

 This subject has been taken up by a com mttee of the American Congress, and shon- ly recommended by them, to the attention of that government and country. And any ob- ect that will promote the intercourse, or strengthen the ties of the two countries, is well deserving the attention of both