Cirrus@Austlit

An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of Robert Whitworth's The Derby Day, John Maddison Morton's Your Life's in Danger and of the sketch The Epsom Downs on a Derby Day on 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 September 1868.

The version of the advertisement published on 5 September 1868 includes the information that the winning jockey of the Australian Derby will be presented with 'a handsome mounted riding whip' during the evening's performance.

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production by William Gourlay and his family of 'Mrs. M'Gregor's Levee' on 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 September 1868. Additional items on the program, with some nightly variation, include Joseph Lunn's The Rights of Woman, Henry Mayhew's The Wandering Minstrel, and 'The Loves of Dumbiedikes and Jeannie Deans' from Walter Scott's Heart of Midlothian.

(It is not clear from the advertisement, see for instance the 9 September 1868 advertisement, whether the excerpt from Heart of Midlothian was directly from Walter Scott's novel or from one of the Heart of Midlothian stage adaptations.)

W. R. Piddington advertises the sale of recently arrived books. The selection available is largely non-fiction and includes Kinglake's Crimea, Political Sketches by Count Munster, A Summer and Winter in Norway by Lady Di Beauclerk and Journals, Conversations and Essays Relating to Ireland by Nassau William Senior.

W. R. Piddington advertises the sale of recently arrived magazines: 'Illustrated London News, Punch, World of Fashion, Bow Bells, English Woman's Magazine, etc, etc'.

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'.

The Empire declares that 'no entertainment ever given at the Victoria Theatre is more enjoyable than that of Mr. and Mrs. Gourlay'.