This column refers to an article, The Liberty of the Press Endangered, published in the Sydney Monitor, 4 April 1838. It also alludes to the objection by the New South Wales attorney general, John Hubert Plunkett, to serving as a steward with the editor of the Sydney Gazette, George Cavenagh, at the 1838 St Patrick's Day Ball in Sydney, New South Wales.
See also St Patrick's Ball - the Attorney General - and the Editor of the Sydney Gazette.
Advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 10 April 1838 of: ‘(2nd time) The Merchant’s Wedding, or, London Frolics in 1638’ [James Robinson Planche, 1828]; ‘To conclude with the operatic Farce, called No Song No Supper, or, The Lawyer in the Sack’ [Prince Hoare, 1790].