Cirrus@Austlit

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of The Curse of Mammon and of Edward Stirling's The Anchor of Hope on 25 and 27 July 1868.

The publishers of the Times advise that they have become the proprietors of the newspaper 'hitherto known as the Evening Mail'. From 20 June 1868, the newly acquired newspaper will be known as The Mail and published twice weekly.

The writer for the Empire looks back at a 1790 issue of the Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure. The issue under examination contains a letter from John White, Surgeon General for New South Wales, in which the new settler despairs of life in the colony. It also contains some English theatrical notices, including a reference to the pantomime The Picture of Paris Taken in the Year 1790, and various items of British news.

An account of the exploits of 'two unprotected females' who travelled, unaccompanied, from Carcoar to Wilcannia 'by way of Forbes, down the Lachlan, and across the Darling', a distance over 600 miles in country 'which the bushrangers even now patronise'

The Empire takes issue with the sentiments expressed in the Sydney Morning Herald's column of 22 July 1868 in relation to the death of Dr William Bland. The Empire accuses the Herald (which had reproduced an article on Bland from the Weekly Register of 1843) of 'trumpeting over the coffin of the dead' by re-exposing Bland's convict and criminal past.

The 'Flaneur' muses on Sydney's recent political and social occurrences. He pays particular attention to the Sydney Morning Herald's (as he sees it) traducing of the reputation of the recently deceased Dr William Bland in that newspaper's obituary 'Death of Dr. Bland 1868'.

'Complaints are often made that newspapers posted in England and directed to persons in this country fail to reach their destination.' Advice is provided on the best way to package and address newspapers in order to secure their safe delivery.

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'.

An advertisement for the sale by auction of '3000 Volumes Valuable Books in every department of Literature. Catalogues may be obtained on application.' The items for sale are described as being 'a large and valuable library of curious and valuable works' and 'lovers of literature are invited to inspect [them] as they are well worthy of attention'.