In 1838 the Commercial Journal and Advertiser marketed itself as 'The Cheapest Newspaper in the Colony' publishing well selected articles and amusing reading, extensive local news and elaborate detail of shipping intelligence.
Throughout 1838 the newspaper regularly published selected anecdotal pars from overseas sources. Pars were sometimes published with a source attribution. The editor's actual source for the pars is not always clear. The attributed international sources for pars in the Commercial Journal and Advertiser are:
Alb. Microscope
American Sun
Arcadian Recorder
Asiatic Journal
Bedford Beacon
Bivouac
Boston Herald
Boston Mercantile Journal
Boston Post
Boz's New Periodical
Broome Courier
Capt. Skinner's Excursions in India
Chamber's Edinburgh Journal
Comic Annual
Dedham Gazette
Dublin Mail
Dublin Paper
Dublin University Journal
Eastern Telegraph
Edinburgh Weekly Journal
Evening Star
Exeter Post
Fraser's Magazine
Free Press
Galignani's Messenger
Geneva Gazette
Glasgow Paper
Greenock Advertiser
Guide
Halifax Express
Heath's Picturesque Annual
Herald
Hood's Comic Annual
Jacksonville Journal
Le Temps
Literary Gazette
Lockhart's Life of Scott
London and Paris Magazine of Fashion
Louisville Journal
Manchester Guardian
Medical Portrait Gallery
Metropolis
Metropolitan Magazine
Milledgeville Journal
Monthly Magazine
Morning Herald
Morristown Journal
Musical World
Nashville Observer
New Monthly Magazine
New Orleans Picayne
New York Evening Star
New York Express
New York Herald
Paisley Advertiser
Patriot
Perthshire Advertiser
Peterboro' Whig
Philadelphia Focus
Pickwick Papers
Portland Advertiser
Providence Gazette
Quarterly Review
Reformers Gazette
Rogers's Italy
Slade's Turkey, Greece, and Malta
Society in America
Ultica Telegraph
Woonsocket (American) Patriot
York Courant
Free Press and Commercial Journal
James McEachern
(editor),
Robert S. McEachern
(editor),
1841
Sydney
:
Robert S. McEachern
,
1841
Z1638162
1841
newspaper
A column probably written by the editor of the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, George Cavenagh, in response to an untitled editorial published in the Commercial Journal and Advertiser on 26 May 1838 (p. 2). The editorial in the Commercial Journal attacked the Gazette over an article entitled 'The Chief Constable' published by the Gazette on 24 May 1838 (p. 2).
Cavenagh in turn attacks the Commercial Journal and its proprietor, William Jones, and Jones' reporter, William Corp. Cavenagh exposes Corp as a previous employee of the Sydney Gazette who was dismissed in May 1837 for intoxication. Correspondence by Corp to Cavenagh, dated '12 May 1837', apologising for the incident and asking to remain in the Gazette's employ is published by Cavenagh as part of the column. 'This expose', writes Cavenagh 'will, doubtless, show the "respectability" of The Commercial Journal, and the weight to be attached to the opinions of such a paper.'
Editorial explaining the absence of the regular 'Theatre Review' column as Joseph Wyatt had refused free entry to the newspaper's reviewer.
Short paragraph on the change of ownership of the Commercial Journal.
Short paragraph on the change of ownership of the Commercial Journal.
A column probably written by the editor of the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, George Cavenagh, in response to an untitled editorial published in the Commercial Journal and Advertiser on 26 May 1838 (p. 2). The editorial in the Commercial Journal attacked the Gazette over an article entitled 'The Chief Constable' published by the Gazette on 24 May 1838 (p. 2).
Cavenagh in turn attacks the Commercial Journal and its proprietor, William Jones, and Jones' reporter, William Corp. Cavenagh exposes Corp as a previous employee of the Sydney Gazette who was dismissed in May 1837 for intoxication. Correspondence by Corp to Cavenagh, dated '12 May 1837', apologising for the incident and asking to remain in the Gazette's employ is published by Cavenagh as part of the column. 'This expose', writes Cavenagh 'will, doubtless, show the "respectability" of The Commercial Journal, and the weight to be attached to the opinions of such a paper.'
Editorial explaining the absence of the regular 'Theatre Review' column as Joseph Wyatt had refused free entry to the newspaper's reviewer.
Varies
1835-1836: gratis ; 1837: 2s 6d per quarter ; 1838: 5s per quarter ; 1839-1 April 1840: 5s per quarter in Sydney, 6s per quarter out of Sydney ; 4 April 1840-30 December 1840: 6s per quarter in Sydney, 7s per quarter out of Sydney
The narrator builds a contraption that allows him to travel above the clouds where he encounters a new world.
