y separately published work icon The Empire newspaper issue  
Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5200 20 July 1868 of The Empire est. 1850 The Empire
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1868 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Douglas Jerrold : A Lecture, to be Delivered by Mr R. W. M. Johnson, single work advertisement

An advertisement for a lecture, to be delivered by Mr R. W. M. Johnson, at the Temperance Hall on 21 July 1868. The lecture, on the subject of Douglas Jerrold, is to be accompanied by 'illustrative readings (embracing contrasts of style of Sydney Smith and Albany Fonblanque)'.

(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)
The Empire, single work column

The writer for the Empire expresses disquiet over the value of colonial Schools of Arts, particularly given their dependence on the public purse. 'Failure is written upon the records of almost every one of these institutions, and it remains now to see what is to be done with our "elephants," and to suggest the best course to adopt with regard to their future management.'

(p. 2)
Theatrical Mems, single work column (p. 2)
Victoria Theatre, single work column

The writer for the Empire notes the continuing poor attendance at the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins's No Thoroughfare and also draws attention to the benefit evening for Walter Cooper (at which Cooper's Colonial Experience will be performed).

(p. 3)
Moneyed Cads, single work prose (p. 4)
The Charms of the Trapeze, single work prose (p. 4)
Phillip M'Carroll. Pitt-Streeti"Now the times are so bad, and the winter so cold,", single work poetry (p. 4)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Last amended 7 Apr 2014 15:53:45
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X