William Hoskins, the new manager of the Royal Victoria Theatre, announces its re-opening on 11 April 1868. The theatre is described as a venue for 'the best class of Drama, Comedy, and Burlesque, by a carefully selected Company from the Melbourne and Sydney Theatres'.
An advertisement for the soon-to-be published poetry collection The Prince's Wreath.
The Empire provides a round-up of the content of English journals for January 1868. The report highlights the following, among others:
Matthew Arnold writing on 'Authority and Anarchy' (Cornhill Magazine), articles on satire (Dublin University and Temple Bar), a newly discovered letter by Sir Walter Scott (Macmillan), the replacement of windows at Haworth Parsonage, once occupied by the Bronte sisters (St James's), a New Year poem by Astley Baldwin (London Society), the beginning of a serialised novel by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik together with contributions from Alfred Tennyson, Geroge Macodnald and Charles Knightley (Good Works), and short stories (Chambers's Journal).
The 'Flaneur' muses on Sydney's recent political and social occurrences, including the attempted assassination of H. R. H. Prince Alfred, Dr Carr's lectures at the School of Arts on 'brain printing', and John Dunmore Lang's 'insights' into the connection between the British and Chinese empires.
