'The Editor [Alfred Ward Stephens] of a contemporary Journal [Sydney Herald] has announced his intention of proceeding at an early period to Britain, and his willingness to employ a portion of his time when there ... in furthering Emigration.'
According to the biographical information for Alfred Ward Stephens in the Australian Dictionary of Biography online, Stephens did not travel to Britain. Stephens was active in promoting emigration.
Short paragraph on the change of ownership of the Commercial Journal.
The editor of the Sydney Gazette opines 'With the New Year, Mr. Felton Matthew, has set to work to repair the break-neck ascent of Church Hill ... It was shrewdly suspected, that the reason why Sir Richard Bourke disregarded all remonstrances made to him on this subject, arising from a lingering hope, that either the Editor of The Herald or The Gazette, or perhaps both, as both had to travel frequently in that direction after nightfall, might be put hors de combat, by a stumble upon one or other of the ruts and gullies with which the street is so plentifully ornamented. We are glad to see that Colonel Snodgrass is more mercifully disposed!'
Advertisement for performances of 'Drama in [3] Acts (translated from the French), called Therese, or, The Orphan of Geneva' [Henri Joseph Brahaim Ducange Victor, translated and adapted for the English stage by John Howard Payne, 1821] and for the first time, 'the Comic Musical Burletta, in 1 Act, called The Married Bachelor, or, Master and Man' [P. P. O'Callaghan, 1821].
