Advertisement for: 'Ten Years English Newspapers, each year separately bound commencing with 1819 and ending with the year 1828.'
An apology for an 'error in the statements made in our last number regarding the origin of the existing Newspaper Act'. The statements were made in an editorial 'The Proceedings of Council' published in the 2 October 1838 issue of the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser.
Announcement of Conrad Knowles' arrival back in the colony.
Correspondence on the libel case Josephson v. Fulton.
This column is in the form of an editor's note preceding the publishing of James Martin's prose piece 'Botany Bay' taken from The Australian Sketch Book (1838). In this column the Sydney Gazette's editor (George Cavenagh?), though agreeing with much of the sentiments of the author ('particularly ... to the ... erecting a monument ... to the memory of the gallant [James] Cook') opines that 'we observe indications of the existence of opinions on the part of the author, which by no means meet with our assent ... we have marked a passage in italics, altogether inconsistent with our views of scriptural truth ...' The passage (in reference to the grave of a chaplain from La Pérouse's expedition) is: 'pray sincerely from the inmost recesses of their hearts, for the soul of the departed'. This is not consistent with the Protestant view of the soul.
An advertisement advising the public 'that the several Parties, alleged to be Partners in The Sydney Times Newspaper ... are not Partners ... and are in no way connected with the fictitious firm of "N. I. Kentish and Co.".'
The advertisement caused some correspondence in Sydney newspapers between Nathaniel Lipscomb Kentish and others including William Kerr.
A notice from the editor of the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (16 October 1838): 2, published in the part of the newspaper normally reserved for 'notices to correspondents', distances the newspaper from this advertisement: 'we beg to state that we knew nothing whatever of the advertisement until we saw it in print'.