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The Oscar Wilde case has led to the arrest of two men who were implicated in the Cleveland street scandals. In the rooms of one of them, J.C. Goodchild, the police found a diary recording the foulest of acts, but nothing was discovered relating to Wilde. The revelations, however, show that the ramifications of a peculiar type of vice are almost past belief. It has transpired that Wilde’s friend Taylor is the son of a London merchant. He inherited an income of £3,500 a year, but dissipated his fortune in profligacy. Mr. Robert Sherard, an Anglo-American journalist, has instituted legal proceedings against the British Consul in Paris, on the ground that the Consult publicly alleged that he (Sherard) was an associate of Wilde, and guilty of crimes similar to those with which Wilde is charged.