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Advertisement for: 'Ten Years English Newspapers, each year separately bound commencing with 1819 and ending with the year 1828.'

An editorial on the petition from '"certain editors, proprietors, and publishers of newspapers," praying for sundry amendments in the Newspaper Act.' The existing Act required that the names and addresses of the editor, printer, publisher, and proprietor of each newspaper appear in the newspaper's imprint, and a sworn affidavit made to that fact. Sydney's newspaper fraternity argued that the Act was more restricted than the English version, where the names of the printer and publisher only were required to appear in the imprint. They also argued that the ability of persons to libel newspapers was not restricted by disclosing the name of the editor. The restrictive colonial version of the Newspaper Act was passed, the author of the column (George Cavenagh?) writes, 'to annoy the late Dr. Wardell, then the editor and proprietor of The Australian, and Mr E. S. Hall, Editor and Proprietor of The Monitor, both of whom were, at the time, at loggerheads with the Government.'

The petition is published on page 2 of the 2 October 1838 issue of the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser.

A paragraph about the Adelaide Mechanics' Institute opening address and first lecture. The paragraph was first published in the South Australian Gazette, 1 September 1838.

'The humble Petition of the Undersigned, Editors, Printers, Publishers, and Proprietors of various Newspapers in Sydney.'

The petition is signed by Edward Smith Hall, 'Editor Monitor'; George Cavenagh, 'Editor Gazette'; James McEachern, 'Editor. Colonist'; George Robert Nichols, 'Editor Australian'; Abraham Cohen, 'Joint Proprietor of ditto [Australian]'; Ward Stephens, 'Editor Herald'.

An editorial about the petition is published on page 2 of the 2 October 1838 issue of the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser.

A column on an 'attempt ... to get up a weekly newspaper at Port Phillip, under the designation of The Port Phillip Gazette. The intended editor is a gentleman named Arden ... [and the] mechanical arrangements will be conducted by Mr. Strode, lately overseer of The Herald office ...'