An advertisement, probably placed by Samuel Bennett (sole proprietor, printer and publisher of the Empire), for the sale of a single cylinder printing machine. The sale is being offered 'to make room for a new machine daily expected from England'.
An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Dion Bouciault's The Octoroon and John Palgrave Simpson's An Atrocious Criminal on 20 June 1868.
An advertisement for the Scandinavian Music Hall's entertainment for 20 June 1868. The evening's performances include: 'The Young Widow, Glees, Songs, and Dances, and New Ballad'.
An advertisement for the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts production of Charles Thatcher's Life on the Goldfields on 18, 19, 20 and 22 June 1868. The production included Thatcher's 'new musical medley, "The Fight in the Assembly", written expressly for the occasion'.
The Empire notes the publication of two journals: the Australian Protestant Banner, 'devoted to the inculcation of extreme Protestant opinions', and the Protectionist, 'the organ of those who aim to reverse the prevailing tendency of modern political teaching'.
A review of the 19 June 1868 Royal Victoria Theatre production of Tom Taylor's An Unequal Match.
The 'Flaneur' muses on Sydney's recent political and social occurrences, including reference to a recent lecture, given by Professor Levi, on the economic value of the working classes. The 'Flaneur' also pokes fun at the Rev'd John Dunmore Lang, accusing him (a Presbyterian) of 'Jesuitism'.
