CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 134, 7 December 1881, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

DESPERVTE FIGHT WITH A SLAVER. AN ENGLISH CAPTAIN AKi< FOUR MEN KILLED. OPENING OF THE~U-ITED STATES PARLIAMIsNT. SIR S. WfiiSOJPS GANDIOATUP.E. [BSDTBB'B TELEGRAMS.} Aden, sth Decembar.

News has reached here of the death of Captain CharltS J. Brownrig* and four of the crew of Her Majesty's ship London, a store vessnl stationed at Zanz.bar, while endeavouring to effect the capture of au Arab slav'd dhow. Captain Brownrigg, in charge of the ship's pinnace, fully manned, c«na un with the alaver off tlti African coast, near Zanzibar, and at once attacked hor. The crew of the dho» off ered a strong resistance, and deapdrate fighting ensued, resulting fu Captain Brownrigg and four of his men bei»g killed £nd several wounded. Tho slaver succeeded in beatlflg off the phinace and escaped. Washington, sth December. The Congress of the United States tnet to-day, but adjourned without transacting other than morely formal business"* The delivery of the Prea : doat's usual meesag'e to the two Houses haa been poatponad for the present. In the Houae of b epreaentativoa, Mr: Keif or, a Hepublican, haa been elected Speaker. , , LtfKDOH, sth December. A Parnellit?, who was a caftdidata for the seat for Londonderry in the House of Commons, rendered vacant by the appointment of the Kiglit Hon. Hngh Law to the Lord Chancellorship of Ireland, has retired from the contest. In an address to the electors annoifocinß his retirement, ho urges aupporter-* of tho ParncUite cause to vote for Sir Samuel Wilson, ititi Consirvativo candidate.