DENMARK. 



207 



SAILING-VESSELS. 



Entered \ Coasting-vessels 14,174 162,051 7,164 148,695 21,838 810,746 



rea '1 Ocean-vessels 12,773 635,661 6,541 410,536 19314 1,046197 



Cleared J Coasting-vessels 15,029 140,687 7,264 140,308 22,293 280,995 



j Ocean- vessels 12,139 135,681 6,286 250,859 18,125 886,540 



The following table exhibits the value (in was entitled under the census of 1850, accord- 

 crowns) of Banish commerce in 1878 : ing to the law of apportionment, allotting one 



representative for every 16,000 inhabitants. 



Exports - The population of Copenhagen had increased 



GreatBritain 41,816,000 63,131,000 since 1850 from 130,000 to 235,000 inhabitants 



SeT' ' ' 80 a&ooo IS'm'ooo and six additional representatives were claimed 



Norway'.'.'.'.!'.'.'.;'.'.".!'.!'.'.!!!.' s^ooo iSWooo f r ^ on the basis of the increase. The de- 



I'SS'noo mand WaS 8U PP rted ^ the Government and 



ffiooo Slffi the Conservative party, because, it was said, 



France 3,172,000 1,811,000 the constituency of Copenhagen is a conserva- 



Slni::::::::::::::::::: 3 S 2 SS , ^ fte proposed increase of repre- 



United states 8.143,000 17000 sentatives would add to the strength of that 



Danish West indies 1,898,000 83^000 party in the Folkething. 



Faroe islands' ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ' ! !.'!!!! 233',ooo 856'SSS The Finance Committee of the Folkething 



Other countries 13,477,000 i,sn',ooo reported at the end of 1879 that, in the esti- 



Totai ... . "wMi^ooT" l53~2220oT mates for 188 P reseilted *>? the Government, 



the amount to be expended on military and na- 



The commercial navy was as follows in 1878 : val acc . ou ? t , wa j SJ mated at 3,047,000 crowns 



J as against 1,974,900 crowns which were voted 



VESSELS. Number. ^ under those heads for the previous year. Both 



' ' branches of the Left proposed to make a great 



Sailing-vessels 3,096 210,763 reduction in this amount, the moderate Left 



favoring a limitation of the appropriations to 



Total 3,286 257,419 1,570,600 crowns, and the radical Left desiring 



to fix them at 1,846,000 crowns. A deputation, 



The aggregate length of railroads in opera- including the Speakers of both of the Legisla- 

 tion was 1,366 kilometres (1 kilometre=0'62 tive Chambers, waited upon the Premier during 

 mile) ; of these, 811 kilometres belonged to the January to present an address urging the Gov- 

 state and 555 to private companies. The num- eminent to complete the defenses of the coun- 

 ber of post-offices was, in 1878, 159; the num- try at whatever cost. The Minister of Marine 

 her of letters and postal-cards mailed, 25,463,- stated in the Landsthing, at the beginning of 

 599. The aggregate length of state telegraph June, that the plans of the Government con- 

 lines was 3,376 kilometres; of wires, 9,016. templated a fleet composed of eight armored 

 According to the census of 1870, there were batteries, four large unarmored vessels, ten cor- 

 only 14,614 persons, or less than one per cent, vettes and schooners, twelve gunboats with 

 of the population, not belonging to the Luther- heavy cannon, and thirty torpedo-boats, all of 

 an Church. Of this number 4,400, or nearly which were to be completed within ten years, 

 one third, were Jews ; the remainder comprised In connection with the subject of the de- 

 1,857 Roman Catholics, 1,430 members of the fenses of the kingdom, a military writer in the 

 Reformed Church, or Calvinists, 2,069 Mor- " Cologne Gazette " remarked in February that 

 mons, 3,157 Baptists, 57 members of the An- the strategical position of Denmark might be 

 glican Church, and 1,181 members of a sect ot great importance in the event of a European 

 called "Frimenighed," or the Free Community, war. The harbor of Copenhagen and several 

 In 1880 the Baptists had in Denmark 17 good anchorages on the coast of Zealand would 

 churches, 116 preaching-stations, 2,114 (adult) afford to a fleet operating in the Baltic a secure 

 members, 697 Sunday-scholars. The Method- basis which would be very useful in a war 

 ist Episcopal Church, in the same year, had against Russia ; while, in a war against Ger- 

 618 (adult) members and 121 probationers, the many, Jutland would afford a place of disem- 

 Seventh-Day Adventists 80 member!*, the Dis- barkation for a large army, which, marching 

 ciples of Christ 70 members, the Brethren or southward, could cause a diversion that might 

 Tunkers 8 members. be very awkward for the German command- 

 Soon after the publication of the census of ers. It was, therefore, not improbable that 

 1880, an agitation was begun in the Govern- some great power might attempt to imitate the 

 ment papers in favor of an increase in the achievements of the British fleet against Den- 

 number of representatives to be sent by the mark in 1801 and 1807. During the Crimean 

 city of Copenhagen to the Folkething. The War there was no suspicion as to the neutrality 

 capital was at present represented by nine of Denmark, and it was consequently not at- 

 members, that being the number to which it tacked by any of the belligerents ; but its ueu- 



