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London, May 7. -- Oscar Wilde was released on bail to-day.

The amount was fixed on Friday last at himself in £2500, and two sureties in £1250 each.

To-day Lord Douglas of Hawick and the Rev. Stewart Duckworth Headlam offered themselves as sureties, and their bonds were accepted.

[The first-named gentleman is well known in Australia through his connection with Coolgardie mining matters. When in West Australia he was known as Lord Percy Sholto Douglas, but on the death of bis elder brother, Baron Kelhead (Viscount Drumlanrig) at the latter end of last year he assumed the courtesy title of Lord Douglas of Hawick. He is the eldest surviving son of the Marquis of Queensberry, to whose titles (Marquis of Queensberry, Earl of Queensberry, Viscount Drumlanrig, Baron of Hawick, and a Baronetcy of Scotland and Nova Scotia) he is heir presumptive. The Rev. Stewart Duckworth Headlam is a very popular London clergyman. He at present holds no preferment in the church. His whole clerical work was practically confined to the slums of the metropolis, as he was successively curate of St. John's the Evangelist, Drury-lane, St. Matthew's, Bethnal Green, St. Thomas, Charterhouse, and St. Michael's and All Angels, Shorediteh. Since 1884 he has devoted himself to improving the social welfare of the people, also taking a great interest in the stage. He is the author of several religious works, of an essay on 'The Function of the Stage,' and of 'The Theory of Theatrical Dancing.']

Bail has been allowed in Oscar Wilde's case.

Oscar Wilde was admitted to bail, himself in £2500 and two sureties in £1250 each.