The Sydney Gazette reports that it has been '... informed that this Journal [the Sydney Monitor] either has, or is about immediately to change its proprietorship. Mr. Statham, the printer of The Monitor, and Mr.Francis O'Brien, collector and shipping reporter to The Sydney Gazette, having purchased the copyright from the original founder, Mr. E. S. Hall. Mr. Hall will still write the lending articles. We wish the new proprietors (both respectable young men)', the Gazette continues, 'every success in their speculation.'