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Show PRIZE MONEY NEVER CLAIMED, British Admiralty Has Sums on Hand for Destroying Slave Ships. The ilitys when prl.o money wiw looked upon In the navy as an ordinary ordi-nary source of Income are reculled by a notification from the British .admiralty .ad-miralty of money waiting to be claimed ttio proceeds of ljonnlk'B ror tho do-iitruction do-iitruction of pi rut en and of the sale o( slave ulilps, Thoie la a huui or V.'ii.OOO from the sale ot slaving vessels cnturod lit the '80s awaiting claimants, also u goodly amount or naval pilzo inonoy and bounty for the destruction or pirates which nobody appliesfor. Homo of those to wlipm money Is due are, no doubt, still alive, but If they aro dewl they probably leftde-scondanttr leftde-scondanttr who If the names wenr advertised ad-vertised would lio forthcoming to substantiate sub-stantiate their claims. As It Is, there is little demand for (ho mouuy In hand. During IS months dealt with In the ntatoniont IbsuoJ from "Whitehall under HO have been paid out. Court Journal |