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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5201 21 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.
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)
Phillip M'Carroll. Pitt-Streeti"Now the times are so bad, and the winter so cold,", single work poetry (p. 1)
Royal Victoria Theatre : Janet Pride, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Dion Boucicault's Janet Pride and Samuel Beazley's The Lottery Ticket on 21 and 22 July 1868.

 (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)
'One Word,' a Song, single work column

The Empire alerts readers to the publication of Miss Parkes's 'One Word' with music composed by C. W. Rayner.

 (p. 2)
Royal Victoria Theatre, single work review
— Review of Colonial Experience Walter H. Cooper , 1868 single work drama ; Sink or Swim Thomas Morton , 1852 single work drama ;

A brief review of the 20 July 1868 Prince of Wales Opera House production of Walter Cooper's Colonial Experience and Thomas Morton's Sink or Swim.

 (p. 2)
Douglas Jerrold, single work column

A brief note commending the lecture on the subject of Douglas Jerrold, to be delivered by R. W. M. Johnson at the Temperance Hall on 21 July 1868. The writer suggests that, 'should the weather permit of the assembling of an audience', Mr Johnson will 'furnish an intellectual treat'.

 (p. 3)
Moses and the Monuments, single work prose (p. 3)
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