a, 104,750, Bosnia and
Herzegovina in 1874 contained 9,537. Servia in 1874 had 24,691; in 1873
Montenegro had 500, and in Roumania there are at the present time from
200,000 to 300,000. According to various official estimates in Austria
there are about 10,000, and in 1846 Bohemia contained 13,500, and Hungary
159,000. In Transylvania in 1850 there were 78,923, and in Hungary
proper there were in 1864, 36,842. In Spain there are 40,000; in France
from 3,000 to 6,000; in Germany and Italy, 34,000; Scandinavia, 1,500; in
Russia they numbered in 1834, 48,247, exclusive of Polish Gipsies. Ten
years later they numbered 1,427,539, and in 1877 the number is given as
11,654. It seems somewhat strange that the number of Gipsies should be
in 1844, 1,427,539, and thirty-five years later the number should have
been reduced to 11,654. Presuming these figures to be correct, the
question arises, What has become of the 1,415,885 during the last
thirty-five years?

As regards the number of Gipsies in England, Hoyland in his day, 1816,
calculated that there were between 15,000 and 18,000, and goes on to say
this:--"It has come to the knowledge of the writer what foundation there
has been for the report commonly circulated that a member of Parliament
had stated in the House of Commons, when speaking on some question
relating to Ireland, that there were not less than 36,000 Gipsies in
Great Britain.

"To make up such an aggregate the numerous hordes must have been included
who traverse most of the nation with carts and asses for the sale of
earthenware, and live out of doors great part of the year, after the
manner of the Gipsies. These potters, as they are commonly called,
acknowledge that Gipsies have intermingled with them, and their habits
are very similar. They take their children along with them on travel,
and, like the Gipsies, regret that they are without education." Mr.
Hoyland says that he endeavoured to obtain the number of pot-hawking
families of this description who visited the earthenware manufactories at
Tunstall, Burslem, Longport, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Fenton, Longton, and
other places in Staffordshire, but without success.

Borrow, in his time, 1843, put the number as upwards of 10,000. The last
census shows that there were under 4,000; but then it should be borne in
mind that the Gipsies decidedly objected to their numbers being taken.
Their reason for taking this step and putting obstacles in the way of th