Issue Details: First known date: 1838... vol. 4 no. 331 26 December 1838 of Commercial Journal and Advertiser est. 1835 Commercial Journal and Advertiser
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* Contents derived from the 1838 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Measure's Imitationi"Without money we are forc'd to do;", Matthew Measure , single work poetry

This short poem, presented as an epigraph to 'A Literary Controversy at Sea', is a parody of Beverley Suttor's verse.

(p. 2)
A Gale at Seai"The stormy Petril ill-betiding bird;", Whimsa , single work poetry (p. 2)
The Theatre, single work column

An overview of performances for the last part of the 1838 season at the Royal Victoria Theatre in Sydney. People mentioned include John Lazar and the machinist James Belmore. Three short reports on the performance of the actor Jacobs, the play to be presented that evening (All for Love; or, The Lost Pleiad), and the welfare of Maria Taylor, who had fallen through a trap door on the stage of the Royal Victoria, appear at the end of the main column.

(p. 2)
A Literary Controversy at Sea, Matthew Measure , single work prose

'Poem "Gale at Sea" by Whimsa is derided for a supposed pleonasm, actually misunderstood as E. L. points out in a "Pindaric Epistle, To the Editor of 'the Traveller', in refutation of certain allegations".' (Webby)

The poems are separately indexed.

(p. 2-3)
Note: The link to page 3 is here .
Pindaric Epistlei"Good mister Editor, I've been accused,", E. L. , single work poetry (p. 2-3)
Royal Victoria Theatre : All For Love &c., single work advertisement

Advertisement for a performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 26 December 1838 of a 'Grand Romantic Drama, in three Acts, entitled All For Love' and a 'laughable and favorite Farce, called The Turned Head'. The performance included the ballad 'The Groves of Blarney' sung by Arthur Falchon and a dance by Miss Lazaar.

(p. 3)

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