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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5268 9 October 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.
English and European News. 'The Mail', single work advertisement

The publishers of the Times advise that they have become the proprietors of the newspaper 'hitherto known as the Evening Mail'. From 20 June 1868, the newly acquired newspaper will be known as The Mail and published twice weekly.

 (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)
Prince of Wales Opera House, single work column

The Empire's review of Madame Anna Bishop's musical entertainment at the Prince of Wales Opera House on 8 October 1868, also notes that the evening included performances of Elizabeth St George's A Handsome Husband and John Maddison Morton's Betsy Baker.

(Note: there was no reference to A Handsome Husband or Betsy Baker in the Prince of Wales's 8 October advertisement, placed in the Empire, for that evening's entertainments.)

 (p. 4)
Phillip M'Carroll, Pitt-Streeti"Harry, good-bye – you ask your old colleague", single work poetry (p. 8)
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