Cirrus@Austlit

An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of the 'new sensation drama, received by the last mail', John Palgrave Simpson and Edmund Hodgson Yates's Stewart Routh; or, Woman's Devotion (aka Black Sheep) and Edward Fitzball's Azael; or, The Prodigal of Memphis on 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 November 1868.

An advertisement for the third and fourth nights of Grace Egerton and George Case's four-night season at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 4-5 November 1868.

The Empire notes Grace Egerton and George Case's performances at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts on 3 November 1868. The 'bill of fare' included 'the colonial servant Miss Evergrowl Trubbles'.

The Empire comments on the recent publication by the Government Printing Office of the Insolvency Acts of New South Wales and the Municipalities Act.

The Empire provides detailed intelligence – largely drawn from other newspapers – on the death in Melbourne of actress Mademoiselle Marie St Denis. The report includes the information that 'to succeed as a writer of romances' was one of St Denis's ambitions.

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'.