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 150 GERMANY HAMBURG.

' Free Port,' and exempt from the customs of the Zollverein, Hamburg had to pay, the same year, the sum of 1,749,725 marks current, or 109,357/.

The public debt of Hamburg on the 1st of January, 1868, was as follows : —

Description of Debt Marks Banco

Old debt 23,224,298

Loan from fire insurance .... 26,001,000

State bonds 7,080,000

3% Loan of 1866 10,000,000

T, rMarks Banco 66,305,298

lotai 1 £ 4,722,897

4,722,897

A considerable part of this debt was incurred after the great fire in 1842, and spent in rebuilding the city on a new and im- proved plan.

Population and Commerce.

The state embraces a territory of 148 English square miles, with a population, according to the census of December 3, 1867, of 306,507 inhabitants. Included in the census returns were two battalions of Prussian soldiers, forming the garrison of the Free City. The state consists of three divisions, the city proper, the suburb of St. Paul, and the township of Bergedorf, the population of each of which districts was as follows on December 3, 1867 : —

Inhabitants

City of Hamburg: 189,145

Suburb of St. Paul 33,086

Township of Bergedorf ..... 84,276

Total 306,507

The increase of population has been very considerable since the census of 1858, when the total number of inhabitants was 210,973. A large stream of the German emigration to America Hows through Hamburg. In the year 1866, there embarked 39,040 emigrants, in 97 vessels, and in 1867 the number of emigrants was 38,214, in 93 vessels.

The commercial intercourse of the United Kingdom with Ham- burg is very important, embracing more than one-half of the total commerce with Germany, and more than nine-tenths of that of the three Free, or 'Hanse Towns.' The subjoined tabular statement gives the total value of the exports from the Hanse Towns to the United Kingdom, and of the imports of British produce and manufactures into the Hanse Towns, in each of the five years 1865 to 1869 : —