That it should be so the world does not understand.

It mocks at it and sometimes puts one into the pillory for it." At this stage there was loud applause in the gallery of the court, and the learned Judge at once said: "I shall have the Court cleared if there is the slightest manifestation of feeling.

There must be complete silence preserved." Mr.Justice Charles repressed the cheering in favour of Mr.Oscar Wilde with great severity, though Mr.Justice Collins did not attempt to restrain the cheering which filled his court and accompanied the dispersing crowd into the street on the acquittal of Lord Queensberry.
In spite, however, of the unfair criticisms of the press; in spite of the unfair conduct of the prosecution, and in spite of the manifest prejudice and Philistine ignorance of the Judge, the jury disagreed.
Then followed the most dramatic incident of the whole trial.

Once more Sir Edward Clarke applied for bail on behalf of Oscar Wilde.

"After what has happened," he said, "I do not think the Crown will make any objection to this application." The Crown left the matter to the Judge, no doubt in all security; for the Judge immediately refused the application.