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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5261 30 September 1868 of The Empire est. 1850 The Empire
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* Contents derived from the , 1868 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Prince of Wales Opera House : The Heir at Law, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of George Colman's The Heir at Law and George Dibdin Pitt's Susan Hopley; or, The Vicissitudes of a Servant Girl on 30 September 1868.

 (p. 1)
To Printers and Newspaper Proprietors, single work advertisement

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'.

 (p. 1)
Amateur Entertainment at Victoria House, single work column

The Empire reports on a 'fashionable amateur performance' given by the employees of Farmer, Painter and Pope (drapers of Pitt Street) on 28 September 1868. The evening began with James Robinson Planché's The Loan of a Lover and this was followed by 'a new adaptation of the Oriental burlesque of "Blue Beard"'. The latter was 'introduced by a sprightly prologue, specially written for the occasion by Mr. Frank Hutchinson'.

 (p. 2)
Excelsiori"Steadily, steadily, step by step,", single work poetry (p. 4)
Phillip M'Carroll, Pitt-Streeti"Jemmy, good bye, the best of friends must part,", single work poetry (p. 4)
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