The Fenian guerrillas have apparently reached London. Early on the
morning of this day week, between 2 and 3 a.m., two bandsmen in the 2nd Life Guards, not in uniform, had some dis- cussion with some Fenian sympathizers, at a public-house in Southampton Row, Holborn, and after leaving the house they were followed by these pro-Fenian gentlemen, and one of the bandsmen, Edwin M`Donne11,—apparently not the one intended, —was shot through the lung by one of the Fenian sympathizers. It is supposed that the other bandsman,' Farber, for . Whom the shot was intended, was mistaken by the person who fired the shot for an informer to whom Colonel Kelly's and Colonel Deasy's original capture was attributed, 'and whom he 'strongly resembles. A man named John Groves, of the London Irish Volunteers, has been apprehended on suspicion of the crime, and confronted with M'Donnell, who is lying in a precarious state at University College Hospital. M`Donnell picked him out as very
like the man, but thought him somewhat shorter. At Groves's lodgings Fenian forms of oath were found, bullets which fit the revolver, and on bis'persoh wasa dagger, inscribed with the words, "A sure friend." It is said that his apprehension has led to the; discovery of a Fenian plot in London. On Thursday a policaman was found insensible in Gower Street. He had been violently assaulted and beaten, and this, too, is of course attributed to the Fenians. The Fenians will be to the police what "the eat" is to the cook, for some time to come.
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