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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5197 16 July 1868 of The Empire est. 1850 The Empire
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1868 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
School of Arts : Sheridan Moore's Lecture, single work advertisement

An advertisement for Sheridan Moore's lecture to be delivered at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 16 July 1868.

(p. 1)
Royal Victoria Theatre : No Thoroughfare, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins's No Thoroughfare and John Maddison Morton's The Two Buzzards on 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 July 1868.

(p. 1)
Royal Victoria Theatre : Colonial Experience, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Walter Cooper's Colonial Experience and Thomas Morton's Sink or Swim on 20 July 1868. The evening was a 'complimentary benefit ... to Walter H. Cooper'.

The advertisement notes that characters in Sink or Swim are to be 'sustained by gentlemen connected with the Sydney press' and that 'a prologue written for the occasion by Frank Hutchinson, Esq., will be delivered by Miss Rosa Cooper.'

(p. 1)
To Printers and Newspaper Proprietors, single work advertisement

An advertisement, probably placed by Samuel Bennett (sole proprietor, printer and publisher of the Empire), for the sale of a single cylinder printing machine. The sale is being offered 'to make room for a new machine daily expected from England'.

(p. 1)
Victoria Theatre, single work review
— Review of No Thoroughfare Charles Dickens , Wilkie Collins , 1867 single work drama ;

A review of the July 1868 Royal Victoria Theatre production of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins's No Thoroughfare.

The reviewer also notes the upcoming benefit evening for Walter Cooper at which Cooper's Colonial Experience and Thomas Morton's Sink or Swim will be produced. The reviewer incorrectly attributes Sink or Sink to J. Madison [sic] Morton.

(p. 3)
Charles Dickens and the Americans, single work column

An overview, including the text of Dickens's speech, of Charles Dickens's farewell dinner with New York's gentlemen of the press.

(p. 4)
Phillip M'Carroll. Pitt-Streeti"Now the times are so bad, and the winter so cold,", single work poetry (p. 4)
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