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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5267 8 October 1868 of The Empire est. 1850 The Empire
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1868 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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)
Lecture on Eloquence, single work column

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'.

 (p. 2)
The Prince of Wales Opera House, single work review
— Review of A Handsome Husband Elizabeth St George , 1836 single work drama ;

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.)

 (p. 2)
Phillip M'Carroll, Pitt-Streeti"Harry, good-bye – you ask your old colleague", single work poetry (p. 4)
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