This issue of the Freeman's Journal also includes:
A report from Britain detailing a court case between the actor and playwright H. Plunkett Grattan and Henry Montague. Grattan sued Montague for non-payment of 'work and labour done'. However, the 'balance of the evidence was in favour of the defendant'.
Buggins muses over recent altercations in Sydney's Municipal Council and on an accident in Parramatta Street involving a young lady, 'a large chignon decorated with superlatively long streamers', a windy day and a hansom cab.
He then turns his attention, briefly, to the previous week's performances at the Prince of Walers Opera House: Jane Shore, Susan Hopley, My Poll and My Partner Joe, The Heir at Law and, in a little more detail, The Stranger.
Buggins also provides an update on the health of Walter Montgomery following a horse-riding accident.
A detailed report on the public lecture, delivered by the Rev'd William Kelly at St Patrick's Hall, Sydney, on 29 September 1868, on the poetry of Thomas Moore.
An extract from the autobiographical correspondence of George Francis Train, written from the Marshalsea, Dublin, to the New York World. In the extract, Train provides an account of his childhood in New Orleans and his departure to join his grandmother in Waltham, Massachusetts
An advertisement advising that the proprietors of the Freeman's Journal have entered into a 'job printing business' and 'are now prepared to execute orders'.
A list of suburban, country and inter-colonial agents for the Freeman's Journal.
An advertisement advising that Greville and Company are the 'authorised Sydney agents of all the leading provincial journals of New South Wales' and are able 'to offer terms for the insertion of advertisements which can be done by none but a recognised agent'.
An advertisement advising that Freeman's Journal 'is filed and may be seen, free of charge, at Holloway's, 533, Oxford-street, W. C., (late of 224, Strand) London, where advertisements and subscriptions may be received'.
An advertisement for Greville and Company, agents for Messers Harrild and Sons, London, advertising the sale of various items of printing machinery and equipment.
