This issue of the Australasian also includes:
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 London monthly The Young Ladies' Journal. The advertisement states that the magazine 'contains suitable reading for families, ... interesting to everybody at home and abroad'.
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 M. A. Pitt's children's reader, The Australian Second Book, published by George Robertson.
Aquarius's reflections on the Yarra River and its rowing regattas include several poetry quotations (e.g. from William Cullen Bryant's 'Autumn Woods' and William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice).
A short report on the cricket match between the Printing Department of The Argus and a team from East Brighton.
An overview of Train's career and of his arrest in Cork, Ireland, on a charge of being a Fenian conspirator.
Q.'s reflections largely concern Victorian political and criminal matters.
Included among the 'Topics of the Week' is a short review of the second issue of the newly revived Colonial Monthly.
Jaques reviews productions of several plays at Melbourne theatres. He also notes the benefits taken by Mr Milne at which Dion Boucicault's Octoroon was performed, and the benefit for Mr Charles Young at which Friends in Need Are Friends Indeed and Turko the Terrible were performed.
A round-up of theatrical news from England and America (noting connections with Australia), including the death of Charles Kean and the dramatisation of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins's No Thoroughfare.
A descriptive account of Melbourne's Little Bourke Street - the 'Chinese quarter' of the city.
An advertisement for the Melbourne printing firm, Stillwell and Knight.
