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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5302 19 November 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.
Prince of Wales Opera House: Masks and Faces, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of Tom Taylor and Charles Reade's Masks and Faces on 19 November 1868. The evening's entertainments, a benefit for Miss Kate Corcoran, also included a 'grand concert'.

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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'.

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Prince of Wales Opera House, single work column

The Empire reports that attendance at the Prince of Wales Opera House has been 'exceedingly thin' and 'the taste for drama, at the present time, appears to have greatly fallen off'.

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Newspaper Correspondence, single work column

The Empire reproduces a column from the Evening News. The column contains advice for writers to the newspaper and warnings about modes of expression that will not be viewed kindly.

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Phillip M'Carroll, Pitt-Streeti"We must ask what the graziers again are about", single work poetry (p. 4)
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