Continues the Commercial Journal and General Advertiser. A prospectus for the Examiner was issued 5 August 1845 announcing the demise of the Commercial Journal and General Advertiser and the 'intention of raising ... another periodical to be styled the Examiner... Mr Richard Thompson is retained to conduct the Editorial deparment, and Mr. Reading to be printer.'
Source: 'The Press', The Morning Chronicle (6 August 1845): 3.