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'.
A report on the Rev'd William Leishman's lecture at the Mariners Church, 7 October 1868, on the subject of the 'Eloquence of the Greeks and Romans compared with that of that of the Moderns'.
A brief review of the 7 October 1868 Prince of Wales Opera House production of Elizabeth St George's A Handsome Husband and of Madame Anna Bishop's musical entertainment.
(Note: the performance of A Handsome Husband was not included in the Prince of Wales's 7 October advertisement, placed in the Empire, for that evening's entertainments.)