PETERSFIELD.
Agent—Miss DUPLOCK.
MADAME ERNESTINA.—This lady gave a ‟Reading from the Poets,” on Monday evening last, at the Town-hall, which was completely filled by a highly-respectable audience. Madame Ernestina, who enjoys a high reputation in Manchester, Stockport, and other towns in the north, as well as in Scotland, possesses great versatility of talent, a considerable amount of dramatic power, and a voice remarkable both for sweetness and flexibility; her enunciation, too, is singularly pure and free from mannerism. Her rendering of the ‟May Queen” was exquisitely touching, and the same may be said of ‟Lord Ullin’s Daughter,” the parting of Wolsey and Cromwell, ‟The Maniac,” &c. Nor does she excel less in the lighter and more amusing part of the performances—the quarrel scene between Sir Peter and Lady Teazle (from the ‟School for Scandal”), the ‟Well of St. Keyne,” ‟Nothing to wear,” &c., being all most effectively given. The audience testified their appreciation of her efforts by repeated rounds of applause, and at the close of the performance the Rev. J. M. Sumner (who presided) and the Rev. M. A. Smelt expressed, in the name of the company, the great pleasure the evening’s entertainment had given them. We sincerely hope we may again be favoured with a visit from this talented lady.