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Oscar Wilde hurriedly left the court while counsel for the Marquis of Queensberry was justifying the plea that he was a grossly immoral man.

The verdict of not guilty was received by the spectators in court with loud cheers.

The notes of the evidence taken at the case have been forwarded to the Public Prosecutor with a view to Oscar Wilde's arrest.

When the Marquis of Queensberry wrote to his son, Lord Alfred Douglas, commanding him to discontinue his intimacy with Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred replied by wire: "What a funny little man you are!"

Oscar Wilde says he was regardless of the social inferiority of his guests if they were amusing.

The libel action brought by Oscar Wilde against the Marquis of Queensberry has resulted in the acquittal of the accused.

The jury expressed the belief that the alleged libel had been written in the public interests.

It is expected that the next step in the sensational case will be the arrest of Oscar Wilde.

The trial of the Marquis of Queensberry, charged with criminally libelling Oscar Wilde, is creating the greatest interest in London.

"You are the divine thing I want," wrote Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas. In the witness-box he explained that this was "the natural expression of an artist to a beautiful personality."

Extract from a letter written by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas:— "Those red roseleaf lips of yours were made no less for the music of song than for the madness of kissing."

LONDON, April 5.

Oscar Wilde hurriedly left the court while counsel for the Marquis of Queensberry was explaining that the prosecutor's literature and letters justified the plea that Wilde posed as an immoral person. Wilde withdrew in order to avoid the appalling evidence that he feared would be brought against him by the witnesses for the defence.

The verdict of Not guilty was received in court with loud cheers.

No warrant against Oscar Wilde was applied for, but Mr. Russell, solicitor for the Marquis of Queensberry, sent to the Public Prosecutor a statement of the witnesses and notes of the evidence with the object of preventing a miscarriage of justice.

After the trial Oscar Wilde published a letter in which he stated that his reason for abandoning the case was to avoid calling Lord Alfred Douglas as a witness.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Wilde, and the police have detained three essential witnesses in connection with the proceedings which are to be instituted against him.

LATER.

Oscar Wilde has been arrested.

APRIL 6.

Lord Alfred Douglas and two men remained in conference with Oscar Wilde for several hours after the trial. They lunched in a private room at the Holborn Viaduct Hotel, after which Lord Alfred Douglas and Wilde drove to one of the banks. Wilde drew out a large sum of money, and was afterwards lost sight of until he was arrested the same evening in an hotel in Sloane-street.

Lord Alfred Douglas was much distressed at the result of the trial. He is unable to provide bail for Wilde's release.

The Marquis of Queensberry sent Oscar Wilde a message after the trial stating that he would shoot him if he attempted to take Lord Alfred Douglas abroad.

The man Taylor, who introduced to Oscar Wilde the young men mentioned during the trial, was arrested to-day.

Both Oscar Wilde and Taylor were brought up at Bow-street Police Court to-day. Several witnesses gave evidence which went to show that the charge now preferred against Wilde can be proved up to tho hilt. It was also shown that Taylor acted as an intermediary for Wilde.

Oscar Wilde's name has been withdrawn from the playbills at the London and American theatres, where Wilde's dramas, "An Ideal Husband" and "The Importance of Being Earnest" are being played.

APRIL 7.

Paris is petrified in consequence of the exposures in the Oscar Wilde case.

Oscar Wilde has been remanded until Thursday. He has not yet been bailed out.