for China silke were very disappointing Inst season, chiefly owing the fashions in Europe and America ree quiring silks of clea, oven, sizes, such as are made in the filatures here. France, Italy, and Japan give largo supplies of that kind of silk; and con. sequently the prices obtained for Chinas were low. Chinasilk is likely to be less used at home every year until it is properly reeled, and as soon as this desirable condition has been brought about it will regain its old high posi. tion in the European markets, Chi cocoons make the firmest reeled ailie and the best quality, and our silk has been brought to its present degraded position in the estimation of foreign manufacturers, by the stupid inattention. to the requirements of trade which the native silk men have all along dia-played. There are many persons who are throughly acquainted with the sible trade, who see little or no hope for the future of China silke, except in the establishment here of filatures on a large scale, They say that the Chinese will nob improve the reeling of the silk, and that either their own ignorance, or the action of their rulers, prevents their acquiring that information which would enable them to rectify the curelessness or mise takes which are ruining the trade, Cueapiy rooled and coarse sills are nq
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