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 account of a conversation between Queen Victoria and Alfred, Lord Tennyson on the morality behind Tennyson's poem Enoch Arden' (1864), particularly the subject of bigamy. The conversation is purported to have taken place on the Isle of Wight.