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LOCAL TAXATION IN COPENHAGEN. 21 first-rate talent in these responsible offices, but it must be remembered that salaries do not rule high, and that thoroughly comfortable, and even moderately luxurious living can be com- manded in Copenhagen at an expenditure which would not enable one to lift one’s head above the level of struggling poverty in Manchester. I refer here, not to the poverty of the hand-working classes, but to the more difficult case of the section in society whose occupations and tastes prevent them from realising suoh comfort as the hand-worker can find, while their income debars them from sharing in the satisfactions for -which their training and dispositions incline them. The body of popular representatives numbers 36. Each year six are elected, who hold their seats for six years. The whole 36 have the right to elect a chairman and vice-chairman among themselves, and the assembly has the right to require informa­ tion and arrive at a determination on all matters touching the welfare of the community. In case of want of accord between the popular body and the magistracy on any of these matters, when no agreement is found possible by negotiation, a power of final decision rests with the Home Office, or perhaps the proper rendering of the title of the ministry concemed should, in this case, be the Local Government Board. The assent of this Government department is, further, needed when questions of loans desired by the city arise. The superior permanent officials of the various departnnnts are appointed by the popular body on the nomination of the magistracy. The subordinate officials are appointed or dis­ missed either by the magistracy as a whole or by the individual burgomasters in their respective departments. The right of voting for a representative in the City Council is possessed by every native or naturalised male of 25 years and upwards, who, at the time of preparation of the voters’ list, was resident in the city and assessed to the city income-tax at an amount oorresponding to 1,000 kroner per annum income (a trifle under 2ls. 6d. per week). Persons who have had, and have not refunded, help from the poor-la.w, or, being domestio servants