This issue notes (2) that: 'The author of Rattlin the Reefer, we perceive by the late English papers, has just published another novel, in three volumes, entitled Outward Bound; or, a Merchant's Adventures. The author was the English novelist Edward Howard (ca. 1793 - 1841). Outward Bound was published in Paris by Baudry's European Library in 1838. According to Howard's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 'Rattlin was extremely successful, [however] none of his subsequent nautical novels reappeared Rattlin's success.'
Source: Jessica Hinings, ‘Howard, Edward (bap. 1793, d. 1841)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13894, accessed 19 May 2014]
Advertisement for 'an extra reporter' for the Sydney Gazette. The advertisement is dated 2 August 1838.
The author (William Kerr?) takes Joseph Wyatt, the proprietor of the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, to task over the timing of the actors' benefit season.
A brief column noting that a ‘publication of a new paper, to be called The Patriot, is in contemplation. One leading feature in the conducting of The Patriot is to be the advocacy of the Roman Catholic cause in the Willis controversy’. Justice John Walpole Willis, an outspoken judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court, had earlier offended Roman Catholics in the colony.
AustLit has not yet established whether this newspaper was published.
See also 'Justice Willis and the Roman Catholics'. The Colonist (1 August 1838): 2.
Advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 11 August 1838 to include the 'Melo-Drama, entitled Mabel's Curse', the 'Farce, called The Two Gregories' and the 'Drama, called The Ancestress'.
An advertisement for a performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, to include 'Shakespeare's ... Cymbeline' and 'Coleman's ... Blue Beard'. The number of acts for Cymbeline is printed differently in the advertisement in the Commercial Journal of 8 and 11 August 1838 (5 acts) to the number printed in the advertisement in the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser of 9 and 11 August 1838 (2 acts).
The performance on 13 August was a benefit for Thomas Simes. The plays for the performance on 14 August are advertised as 'repeated'. However, the 14 August performance was probably not a benefit.
