ARREST OF MR.

O'BRIEN, OF MESSRS.

MEAGHER AND O'DONOHOE .-- ARREST OF TERENCE BELLEW MACMANUS .-- CLONMEL SPECIAL COMMISSION .-- TRIAL, CONVICTION, SPEECHES AND SENTENCE OF THE REBELS .-- WRIT OF ERROR .-- COMMUTATION OF SENTENCE .-- TRANSPORTATION OF THE HEROES.
Before proceeding further with the details of my own wanderings, I wish to follow out to its conclusion the fate of those whom we parted with at Ballingarry, and were destined to see no more, though, in doing so, I must anticipate the order of time, in which the events took place.

My task here is more difficult and painful than any detail of facts, however gloomy.

There are always in the reverses of the brave, some glimpses of glory to reconcile us to the dark disasters on our way; but when calumny pursues their path, gnawing, with ceaseless tooth, the priceless jewel of their character, the historian must shudder to find his labour beset by the filth and rubbish the viper has left behind.