This issue of the Australasian also includes:
On the heartbreak experienced by Carlotta (aka Charlotte, Carlota), wife of Maximilian I of Mexico, when she learned of her husband's execution.
Q. offers his views on a court case involving Isaac Coleman, proprietor of Melbourne's Tattersall's Hotel. He also takes a satirical swipe at employees of government ministers, ponders the divide between Roman Catholics and Protestants, and reacts to the news of the attempted assassination in Sydney of H. R. H. Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
A review of the March 1868 productions of Tom Taylor's The Hidden Hand at the Theatre Royal and Charles Mathews' Who Killed Cock Robin? at the Princess's Theatre. Francis Cowley Burnand's Acis and Galatea is also reviewed; it was produced simultaneously at the Theatre Royal and at the Princess's Theatre.
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 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.
An advertisement for the Baptist periodical, the Christian Pioneer, printed every Thursday by Stillwell and Knight.
H. T. Dwight, Bookseller, 'near Parliament, solicits inspection of his stock'.
An advertisement for the 'Illustrated London News, London Punch, and other English periodicals', available from Samuel Mullen, Bookseller, 55 Collins-street east.
An advertisement for C. Wade Browne's Overlanding in Australia, available from George Robertson, Elizabeth-street, Melbourne.
An advertisement for M. A. Pitt's children's reader, The Australian Second Book, published by George Robertson.
An advertisement for the Melbourne printing firm, Stillwell and Knight.
