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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5204 24 July 1868 of The Empire est. 1850 The Empire
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* Contents derived from the , 1868 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Royal Victoria Theatre : East Lynne, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of John Oxenford's East Lynne and T. Haynes Bayly's The Swiss Cottage on 23 and 24 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)
Victoria Theatre, single work column

The writer for the Empire praises the 23 July 1868 Royal Victoria Theatre productions of John Oxenford's East Lynne and Thomas Haynes Bayly's The Swiss Cottage, and hopes that the public are 'alive to the great claims which the present lessee of the Victoria [William Hoskins] has upon them, in the unceasing efforts he has made and continues to make to place good plays upon the stage in an efficient style'.

 (p. 2)
Funeral of the Late Dr. Bland, single work column (p. 2)
The Late Dr. Bland, George Atkinson , single work correspondence

George Atkinson is fearful that Australians will let the name of Dr William Bland 'sink into oblivion'. He hopes this will not be the case.

 (p. 3)
Phillip M'Carroll. Pitt Streeti"Now M'Carroll has got his large Winter supplies,", single work poetry (p. 4)
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