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Mr Robert Harborough Sherard, author and journalist, was able, by special permission of the Home Secretary, to visit Oscar Wilde yesterday at Wandsworth Jail. The Press Association learns from Mr Sherard that the visit lasted twenty minutes, and that a warder was present. The convict appeared well and in fair spirits, and Mr Sherard adds—"I was much struck with his courage and resignation, though his punishment weighs terribly upon him. I was his only visitor, though I trust to make up the party of four allowed by the visiting ticket. Wilde is now allowed one book per week."

Mr. Robert Harborough Sherard, the author and journalist, was able, by special permission of the Home Secretary, to visit Oscar Wilde yesterday at Wandsworth Jail. The visit lasted twenty minutes, and a warder was present. The convict appeared well and in fair spirits, and Mr. Sherard adds—"I was much struck by his courage and resignation, though his punishment weighs terribly upon him. I was his only visitor, though I trust to make up part of four allowed by the visiting ticket. Wilde is now allowed one book per week.

At the London Bankruptcy Court yesterday the first meeting of the creditors was held under the receiving order made against Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wells Wilde, described as late of Tite Street, Chelsea, now of her Majesty's prison, Wandsworth, author. Ten proofs were put in, including one for £677 by the petitioning creditor, the Marquis of Queensberry. In the absence of any proposal, resolutions were passed for adjudication, with the Official Receiver as trustee.