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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5212 4 August 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 : Corsican Brothers, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Dion Boucicault's Corsican Brothers and of Jack Sheppard on 4 August 1868.

(p. 1)
Phillip M'Carroll. Pitt Streeti"The winter's going on, and it is both cold and wet,", single work poetry (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 The Hypocrite Isaac John Bickerstaff , 1768 single work drama ;
(p. 2)
Miss Grace Egerton, single work column

The Empire reports that 'Mr. and Mrs George Case' will be visiting Sydney 'where they will give a series of their inimitable drawing room entertainments'.

(p. 2)
To the Editor of the Empire, 'Justice to the Dead' , single work correspondence

'Justice to the Dead' writes of the final act of compassion exercised by Dr William Bland prior to his death – despite his own ill health, he went to the home of 'a poor woman in her confinement'. The letter concludes: 'After leaving the house of his patient, a one pound note was found on the table of the sick and needy woman.'

(p. 4)

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