The Sun.
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cocoons, and giving regular instruction to the lancls•
The reels are generally turned by power, and the
water is heated by steam, double threads* are
avoided, and thus regular fine silks are produced
with great advantage.
Reeling is somewhat improved in the Milanese
by the application to a certain extent of the same
means as in France.

Improvements in the manner of cultivating the
trees have been generally and effectively introduced
in the mountainous districts of France, and in Pied-
mont, where they present a striking contrast to the
ill-conditioned standard trees of Dauphine, Lom-
bardy, and the Southern Italian States.

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The peasantry engved in breeding silk-worms in
the various districts of Europe have as yet made but
little progress in improvement. The larger cham-
bers often present great skill and attention in the
requisite details ; the rooms built for this purpose
are now larger, more airy, and arranged so as to
produce a great circulation of air suddenly. Great
cleanliness, and giving the worms dry food, have
been attended with the happiest results. The pea-
santry, however, living in the higher ranges of the
hills, often bring down for sale excellent samp'es of
cocoons.

The progress of the production of silk in France
has been considerable; in 1789 it was 1,000,0001 b.;
in 1820 it was 1,350,6001 b,, ; in 1825 it was
1,600,000:b.

The consumption in 1825 was about :3,000,0001b.
which quantity, and of sufficiently good quality, she,
may probably have within herself the means of pro-
ducing by the year 1840, if necessary.
Prejudices are very general on several important
points ; as, for instance, in favour of lopping off
large branches from trees, instead of small and fre-
quent prunings—to let the trees grow to grass mea-
dows, or amongst corn, without digging around the
roots, as is necessary six or eight times during the
year. The loss in leaves from these causes has been
estimated by some so high as a third of what might
otherwise be obtained. The poor suffocate often,
and almost always weaken the worms they breed,
by subjecting them to an occasional close heat. It
is difficult to make them understand that confined
air may kill the insects at 70 degrees, but that they
may remain healthy if the air be in circulation
though the actual heat be 90 degrees ; this accounts
for a large proportion of the extra loss in the pea-
sants' breed of worms. This class conceive they
gain by reeling their own silk—they loose, in fact,
10 per cent. at least. The reeler by profession does
not gain more than from 10 to 15 per cent. after he
has paid all expenses, and runs considerable risks,
although he produces from similar cocoons a far
superior article.

The owners of filatures have a great prejudice
against reeling longer than during the months of
July, August, and September; certainly this period
might be considerably extended without injury to
the cocoons or the silk, and with great advantage
to the persons employed. It is possible also to reel
at less speed than is usual, if increased care and
time be desirable. But the most important error,
and one that has hitherto universally prevailed, is that
which supposes all coarse reeled silks must be ne-
cessarily ►rregular also. Now, it is just as possible
to produce a coarse, even thread, as a fine one; and
the advantage gained by reeling even thick silks
must be apparent to those who know the waste and
expense attending throwing fine silks to be used for
var►ous purposes, where even thick silks are neces-
sary, and which must be superadded to the increased
cost of reeling fine silks.
• This greatest evil in reeling silk is avoided by two
knife blades being so placed, as that the mornent one
thread breaks, and by consequence the other would pass
un cite reel double from the croissee, it must strike on
the knife edge on that side, and at sufficient angle to cut
it ere any has got on the reel.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Yesterday the Justice-room was crowded, on
account of the expected examination of Gwynn,
who was charged with haring successfully played
off some tricks, which were not unworthy of the
genius of Coster, with whom the Lord Mayor as-
certained the prisoner had been connected in mer-
cantile transactions.
The prisoner, upon his first examination, stated
that he was in the employment of Mr. Ts,ylor, the
rectifier, in Chelsea, by whom he was authorised to
obtain and give orders for goods. In consequence
of his representation (for Mr. Taylor denied that
such a connexion existed), the prisoner victimized
Mr. Archer, of Philpot-lane, of property to a con.
siderable amount, by ordering that gentleman to
send the goods to one Hawes, who he pretended
was a licensed victualler in the trade of Whitbread
and Co., but who, instead of paying for them, set
them down against an old account which Gwynn
was indebted to him.
The LORD MAYOR—Pray, prisoner, were you
not tried at the Old Bailey ? Gwynn—Why, yes,
my Lord ; I was falsely charged, and I happened to
get into trouble. But there wasn't a syllable of
truth in the charge.
The LORD MAYOR—Why didn't the Grand
Jury throw out the bill ? Gwynn—There was no
such thing as a bill at all. I was tried and acquitted,
and I have an action against the accuser.

The LORD MAYOR-1--You spoke of your respec-
tability when you were last here, and I find you in
good company at the Tom and Jerry shop, and that
you have been a very hopeful character. I'd wish
to know from Mr. Taylor, whom I see here, what
he knows of you ?
Mr. Taylor declared that the prisoner never had
been in his employment, although he admitted there
had been an acquaintance existing. Witness really
had considered the prisoner to be a respectable
person, wholly incapable of any improper conduct,
and had dined with him and an elderly gentleman,
a Colonel in the army, at the Tom and Jerry shop
frequently.

Mr. Austin, the owner of the Torn and Jerry
shop—Yes, Sir, you have; and you are the only
one of the three that paid me anything. The bill
was 201. Os. 2d. for you all, and you sent me goods
to the amount of 71.; but I shall look to you for the
rest, as I don't expect a farthing from the prisoner
or the Colonel.

The LORD MAYOR-4 suppose, Mr. Taylor, you
did not know anything about this man's sojourn in
Nevvgate ?
Mr. Taylor—l never had the least idea of such a
thing. He has got property to some amount from
me.

Mr. Archer—There is no question, my Lord, but
that I and others gave credit to the representations
of the prisoner, from our belief in the acquaintance
and connection between Mr. Taylor and him.
The LORD MAYOR—You see, Mr. Taylor, how
necessary it is for a gentleman to be cautious of the
person he sits down with in Tom and Jerry shops
I can tell you who has been your companion. This
man was tried at the Old Bailey on the 18th or 19,h
of October last, and I have the person here who
prosecuted him. He was acquitted by a manceuvre,
and lodged in Whitecross-street. He is, I am
given to understand, the destroyer of the daughter
of a respectable butcher in Leadenhall-market,
whose family is utterly ruined, even to the stripping
of their furniture and clothes; and he afterwards
justified an action for a prisoner in the Fleet, having
sworn that he possessed and rented a house in
Nelson-street, Finsbury-square, although it was