FROM a communication received a short time since from Horr ANDERSEN, the Inspector of the Danish Life-saving Service, we learn that on the occasion of the visit of H.M. The KING OF DENMARK to the Skaw, on the 24th July last, a tabulated statement was prepared showing the good work that had been accomplished by the Service from its establishment in 1851, up to the 31st March, 1889.

In Denmark the work of saving life from shipwreck is concentrated in one department under the Government and not as in England, where the Rocket Apparatus is worked by the men of the Coastguard Service, under the management of the Board of Trade, and the Lifeboat service of the country is almost entirely carried on by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE - BOAT INSTITUTION, a charitable agency, wholly supported by voluntary contributions.

It appears that on the coast of Denmark, during the 38 years comprised in the period above-mentioned, 2,354 vessels were stranded, on board of which were 18,567 persons, and out of that number 993 lives were lost, or about 1 in every 19 persons whose lives were thus endangered.

The losses were made up as follows, vie., 541 seamen perished as the result of their vessels breaking up, 228 were lost while making for the shore in their own boats before assistance could be rendered from the land, and 224 were killed by falling spars, &c., or were washed overboard by the heavy breakers when their vessels were stranded.

Turning to the brighter side of the picture, i.e. the lives saved, we find that the Life-boats belonging to the Danish Life-saving Service were the means of saving, in the same period, 2,364 lives, while the Rocket Apparatus of .the Service landed 2,307 men, in addition, to contributing to the rescue of 68 of those brought ashore in the Life-boats. Further, shore-boats and other private assistance from the land contributed to the saving of 3,815 lives, and finally, the large number of 9,088 rescued men is accounted for either by the stranded vessels being extricated from their perilous positions or the mariners being enabled to land in safety by their own unaided exertions, by the help of their own boats and lines, or by swimming ashore.

We think the Danish Life-saving Service may fairly lay claim to high commendation for the great success that has attended their organization, and we strongly recommend them to " go on and prosper," assuring them that they have the hearty good wishes of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which will in the future as in the past be ever ready to co-operate with them in their humane and increasingly important work.