PROSECUTIONS FOR LIBEL.—We learn from the Morning Journal, and from
the Globe, which states that it had investigated the rumour, that true bills were found this week at the London Sessions against the proprietors-of the Standard, for a libel on the Duke of WELLINGTON. The Duke is too just to make fish of one and flesh of another. It is curious that the Standard itself has not uttered one word on the sub- ject of this visitation. The Journal, on the contrary, has been talking over its woes every day since the bill was found, and setting all the journals in town and country talking about them also. It has been asserted, that Ministers deliberated whether the placards that an- nounce this daily warfare should not be pulled down, and that the New Police were to perform the duty. This must be a pleasant ex- aggeration. The New Police are not yet in pay ; the Journal is safe from their activity until the treasurer commence his functions.
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