Considering    the   slender
One  of  them  was  a  Bill  of  Exchange,  character  of  the  information  in  their
the  draft  of  Belmont  &  Co.,  bankers  hands  at  the  time  regarding  the  con-
of  New   York,   on  Rothschilds,   in  spiracy  as  a  conspiracy,  the  exploit
favour  of  George  Hopper,  for  £500,  must  be  considered  to 'have  been  a
and  the  other  two  were  letters  in  bold  one,  and  creditable  to  their  ad-
the  handwriting  of  "Head  Centre,  ministrative  vigour  in  the  highest
John  O'Mahony,"  indicating  in  the  degree. In  this,  as  at  all  other  stages
plainest  manner  that  the  bill  was  for  in  the  contest  with  Fenianism,  Lord
the  treasonable  purposes  of  the  organ-  Wodehouse    proved    himself    fully
ization  ;  that  two  special  emissaries  equal  to  the  occasion — at  once  discreet
from  America  had  come  over  with  and  bold,  careful    in  judging  and
it,  accredited  to  Stephens ;  and  also  prompt  in  action. The  public  were
stating  0'Mahony*s  regrets  that  a  per-  naif  disposed  to  think,  at  first,  that
son  of  the  name  of  "O'Donnell"  nad  the  seizure  of  the  JrUh  People  went
left  America  so  soon. So  closelv  had  the  length  of  an  unnecessary  arbitra-
the  movements  of  the  suspected  per-  riness. It  was  openly  referred  to  a
sons  been  watched  that  this  so-called  desire  to  make  political  capital  of  Fe-
O'Donuell  was  found  to  be  no  less  a  nianism,  but  events  very  soon  proved
person    than  O'Donovan,  the   very  that   the  Government   had  judeed
Rossa"  who  had  appeared  in  the  justly. The  arrests  at  the /rwA  Jvo-
Phoenix  business  of  1859,  and  had  /?fe  office,  and  the  consequent  searches,
then  obtained  the  clemency  of  the  were  so  well  effected  that  the  Govem-
Crown. In  the  month  of  June,  1865,  ment  in  twenty-four  hours  became
O'Donovan  was  traced  to  Queenstown,  masters  of  the  whole  conspiracy,  and
where  he  took  a  passage  for  America  of  its  designs  and  objects. Its  prin-
under  the  name  of  0  Donnell. He  cipal  founders  and  sustainers  were
was  also  traced  back  by  the  same  ship  talcen  at  one  sweep  of  the  net ;  but
which  bore  the  persons  who  brought  so  little  was  learned  from  Informers,
the  Bill  of  Exchange. The  utmost  that  absolutely  the  whereabouts  of
caution  was  observed  by  the  authori-  James  Stephens  was  not  revealed,
ties. 