Excerpt from The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. 56: XIX-XX; A Monthly Review; July-December, 1904 But the jury were only human beings; and, therefore, real judicial consideration of the evidence on which the Report is based was Obviously out of the question in this short time; so it necessalrily follows that the adverse judgment must have been arrived at on some grounds quite different from the evidence on which the Commissioners formed their opinions. And with the condemnation came an amount of drubbing the Commissioners that reminds me of the Old advice If you have a bad case, don't reply to your opponent's arguments, but abuse him.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.