The Prize Court at home is engaged at the moment in settling a distinctly knotty—point—whether for captures of ships resulting out bounties can be paid to the Navy of a joint enterprise with the Army. The case is of more than ordinary interest to us here, because three of the boats on the China Station, the Mantis, Moth and Tarantula, happen to be the claimants. It was during Genera] Maude's Pursuit to Bagdad that the incident occurred, and the case for the Navy is that there was no joint capture by the gunboats and Army, but that the gunboats dashed in on their own when the cavalry were held up, took a con-
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