text:  In Hindostan as is well known a most extensive and admirably organized system of police has been found absolutely indispensable to repress the endless robberies of which its fertile plains had long been the theatre; and the force employed permanently or occasionally in this way amounts to _a hundred and sixty thousand_! The consequence has been a _diminution_ of crime and commitments during the last forty years fully as remarkable as this simultaneous increase in the British islands