text:  How great then must have been the mass of experienced but undetected and unpunished crime which pervades the state when this all but invincible repugnance has been generally overcome and men in so many cities and counties have been induced to submit to the certainty of the visit of the tax-gatherer rather than the chance of a visit from the thief or the burglar! And for decisive evidence that the new establishment of a police force is not by the crimes which it is the means of binging to light the cause of the prodigious increase of crime of late years in the British empire we refer to the contemporary examples of two other countries in which a police force on a far more extensive scale has been established and has been found the means of effecting a signal _diminution_ of crime and commitment