were paid to the English Ambassador, and of friendship to other persons.  Among the prisons visited were the St. Lazare Prison for women, containing 952 inmates, La Force Prison for men, the Central Prison at Poissy, and that of the Conciergerie.  The first-named, that of St. Lazare, was visited several times, and portions of Scripture read, as at Newgate.  The listeners were very much affected, manifesting their feelings by frequent exclamations and tears.  Lady Granville, Lady Georgina Fullerton, and some other ladies accompanied Mrs. Fry to this prison on one visit, when all agreed that much good would result from the appointment and work of a Ladies’ Committee.  Hospitals, schools, and convents also came in for a share of attention; and after discussing points of interest connected with the prisons with the Prefect of Police, she concluded by obtaining audience of the King, Queen and Duchess of Orleans.

On the journey homeward the party visited the prisons of Caen, Rouen and Beaulieu, distributing copies of the Scriptures to the prisoners.  She notices with much delight the united feeling in respect of benevolent objects which existed between Roman Catholics and herself.  Her own words are “a hidden power of good at work amongst them; many very extraordinary Christian characters, bright, sober, zealous Roman Catholics and Protestants.”

In the commencement of 1839, the low state of the funds of the different benevolent societies formed in connection with her prison labors, exercised her faith.  None ever carried into practice more fully the old monkish maxim Labor est orare.  Refuges had been formed, at Chelsea for girls, and at Clapham for women, while the Ladies’ Society and the convict-ships demanded funds incessantly.  A fancy sale was held in Crosby Hall, “conducted in a sober, quiet manner,” which realized over a thousand pounds for these charities.  After recording the fact with thankfulness, Mrs. Fry paid her second visit to the Continent, going as far as Switzerland on her errand of mercy.

At Paris she was received affectionately by those friends who had listened to her voice on her previous visit.  Baron de Girando and other philanthropists gathered around her, oblivious of the distinctions of creeds and churches, and bent only on accomplishing a successful crusade against vice and misery.

Among the hospitals inspected by her were the hospital of St. Louis for the plague, leprosy, and other infectious disorders; the Hospice de la Maternite, and the Hospice des Enfans Troves.  This latter was founded by St. Vincent de Paul for the bringing up of foundlings, but had fallen into a state of pitiable neglect.  From the unnatural treatment which these poor waifs received, the mortality had reached a frightful pitch.  It seemed, from Mrs. Fry’s statements, that the little creatures were bound up for hours together, being only released from their “swaddlings” once in every twelve hours for any and every purpose.