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An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of William Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors and Henry Thornton Craven's My Daughter's Debut on 1 June 1868.

A short advertisement announcing the imminent re-opening of the Lyceum Theatre, York Street, Sydney.

An advertisement to printers, advising the availability for rent of a country newspaper 'in good working order'.

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'.

The writer for the Empire addresses 'the danger incurred by telling the truth in public journals'. The writer states: 'As the law now stands in this country a journalist who would respond to the call of public duty, whenever injustice or incapacity in those who are entrusted with important functions merits castigation, must often find himself exposed to serious loss ... In this country the law is more unfavourable to journalists than in England ... a reproach would be removed from the colony, and the injustice of which journalists have reason to complain, would be much abated, if our law were conformed to that of England.'

The editorial concludes with the hope that 'the interest of the people in the preservation of the freedom of the Press will lead to the establishment of that freedom upon a more satisfactory basis.'

A review of the 1 June 1868 Royal Victoria Theatre production of William Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors.

John Cash Neild informs readers of the Empire that the lecture given by him in support of the Prince Alfred Hospital Fund 'instead of leaving a surplus ... did not, unfortunately, pay its expenses'. Neild says that the location of the lecture (in Chippendale) 'is not a favourable one for lectures on literary subjects'.