This issue of the Australasian also includes:
An advertisement for a volume of Robert Burns's poetical works, available from George Robertson, 69 Elizabeth Street Melbourne.
An advertisement for St Paul's Magazine, 'a new monthly magazine of fiction, art and literature, edited by Anthony Trollope and illustrated by J. E. Millais.
An advertisement for the soon-to-be published Narrative of the Visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to the Colony of Victoria, Australia by J. G. Knight.
An advertisement for the London monthly The Young Ladies' Journal. The advertisement states that the magazine 'contains suitable reading for families, ... interesting to everybody at home and abroad'.
An advertisement for the London Journal.
An advertisement for the published collection of newspaper correspondence, Was Hamlet Mad?: Being a Series of Critiques on the Acting of the Late Walter Montgomery, available from the publisher and bookseller H. T. Dwight.
A column commenting on the attempted forgery of some of Newton's scientific discoveries. The forger's imitated manuscripts 'are said to be perfection'.
A column relating Cardinal Wolsey's efforts to close the printing press of the monastery of St Alban's (whose abbot Wolsey was).
An advertisement for the Royal Princess's Theatre production of Watts Phillips's The Woman in Mauve and F. C. Burnand's Black-Eyed Susan; or, The Little Bill That Was Taken Up on 8 February 1868.
A review of the production of Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera at the Duke of Edinburgh is followed by a detailed commentary on the Princess Theatre's productions of Watts Phillips's Nobody's Child and John Maddison Morton's The Pasha of Pimlico.
'Q' ruminates on the role of the philosopher before going on to comment on various political, legal and social issues affecting Melbourne and the Victorian colony.
E. A. Samson expresses his gratitude to 'Tumulus' for the latter's support on matters relating to public speaking and reading. Samson then details his views on a range of mis-pronounciations evident in the speech of 'lads and young men born in the colony'.
Pike expresses his annoyance at disruptions at the theatre on two counts: the noises made babies and the intrusions of boys selling fruit and ginger beer.
