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LONDON, May 8.––Mr. Vaughan accepted Oscar Wilde’s bail at Bow Street yesterday morning, and early in the afternoon he was released. The bail was fixed at £2,500 in Wilde’s own recognizances, with two sureties of £1,250 each. The two sureties were Lord Douglas of Hawick and the Rev. Stewart Headlam. The sureties afterwards proceeded to Holloway Jail and accompanied Wilde back to Bow Street to be formally set at liberty.

Wilde looked brighter and not much worse for his incarceration. The Rev. Stewart Headlam, in an interview as to his action, says: "I have undertaken this responsibility on public grounds. I felt that the public mind has been prejudiced before the case began, and I anxious to give Mr. Wilde any help I could to enable him to stand his trial in good health and spirits."

London, Tuesday Evening.

The application for Mr Oscar Wilde to be released on bail was made at Bow street this morning before Mr Vaughan. Mr Travers Humphreys appeared on behalf of the prisoner, while the Treasury was represented by Mr Angus Lewis. Mr Humphreys briefly recapitulated the history of the case up to the application made yesterday to Baron Pollock, and said that he was now prepared with the necessary securities. Both of them were persons of substance and their names had been submitted to and approved by the Treasury. One was the Rev Stewart Headlam and the other Lord Douglas of Hawick, otherwise Viscount Drumlenring, eldest son of the Marquis of Queensberry.

Both these gentlemen were called, and swore that they were worth £1,250, the amount of the bail fixed for each surety by Baron Pollock.

Mr Vaughan said that he was perfectly satisfied with the bail tendered, and he ordered Wilde’s immediate release.

Mr Stewart Headlam, interviewed by a Press Association representative at the close of the proceedings, as to his reason for becoming surety, said, "I have undertaken this responsibility on public grounds. I felt that the public mind had been prejudiced before the case began, and I was anxious to give Mr Wilde any help I could, to enable him to stand his trial in good health and spirits."

At the close of the hearing today Lord Douglas of Hawick and Rev Stewart Headlam, accompanied by one of Messrs Humphreys’ clerks, entered a cab and drove to Holloway Jail, where, after Mr Oscar Wilde has entered into his own recognisances before the governor of the prison, he will be at once released.

Wilde left Holloway Jail this afternoon. He drove from the jail in a four-wheeler to Bow street, where he went into the clerk’s room and signed what is known as the bail book, after which, accompanied by Lord Douglas of Hawick, has re-entered the cab and drove off.

The Press Association, in a later telegram, says — Detective Inspector Brockwell, Sergeant White, jailer at Bow street, and a clerk of Messrs Humphreys’ and Son, Wilde’s solicitors, arrived at Holloway Prison at 20 minutes past one this afternoon for the purpose of receiving Oscar Wilde, and taking him to Bow street, so that he would enter into his own recognizances before being restored to liberty. The necessary formalities at the prison took some little time, but just before two the party emerged through the wicket-door, and took seats in a waiting cab. Wilde wore a dark cloth overcoat, grey trousers, and a silk hat. There was a wearied expression about his pale features strongly indicative of sleepless nights, and it could plainly be seen he was in anything but robust health. His body also seemed slightly bent.

Neither at the prison gate nor at Bow street was there the slightest demonstration, and during the journey Wilde is stated to have maintained almost absolute silence, being seemingly intensely absorbed in thought. At Bow street, the two sureties, the Rev Stewart Headlam and Lord Douglas of Hawick, were waiting, and the proceedings in connection with Wilde’s recognisances of £2,500 having been completed the accused was released.

He is immediately drove to the Midland Hotel, St Pancras, accompanied by his sureties, and it was subsequently stated he was suffering from extreme prostration, and quite unable to undergo the fatigue of an interview. It is expected he will leave London tomorrow, and his solicitors, at his own request, have offered to keep the authorities fully informed of his movements, and his precise whereabouts, between now and he 20th instant, when he will in due course give himself up to the police. In the course of the afternoon, it was stated, Wilde had an interview at the Law Courts with Sir Edward Clarke Q C.