leted the females would be
separated from the males, female warders were to be appointed,
employment found for all prisoners, and books of information and
devotion were to be supplied to each cell; while a chaplain (an unknown
official, hitherto) was to be appointed. In Germany, four new
penitentiaries were to be constructed; viz., at Berlin, Muenster in
Westphalia, Ratibor in Silesia, and Koenigsberg. Two of these
penitentiaries were to be exactly like the Model Prison at Pentonville;
separate confinement was to be practically carried out, and the
prisoners were to be taught trades under the superintendence of picked
teachers. From Duesseldorf came information that all the female prisoners
were improving under the new _regime_; that an asylum for discharged
prisoners was effecting a wonderful transformation in the characters and
lives of those who sought refuge there; and that the inmates only left
its shelter to secure situations in service. In addition to these
cheering items she had the satisfaction of holding communications with
many princely, noble and royal personages on the Continent, respecting
the progress of her favorite work, and the new regulations and buildings
then adopted.

To return to her home-work and its ramifications will only be to prove
how far the great principles which she had taught were bearing fruit.
The Government Inspectors were working hard upon the lines laid down by
Mrs. Fry; and if at times they found anything which clashed with their
own pre-conceived ideas of what a prison should be, they were always
ready to make allowance for the difficulties of pioneer work, such as
this lady and her coadjutors had to do at Newgate. At Paramatta, New
South Wales, where, according to a letter from the Rev. Samuel Marsden
in an earlier part of this work, the condition of female convicts had
been scandalous to the Government which shipped them out there, and
deplorable in the extreme for the poor creatures themselves, a large
factory had been erected, designed for the reception of the convicts
upon their landing. It served its purpose well, being commodious enough
to receive not only the new importations, but the refractory women also,
who were returned from their situations. It was well managed; the
inmates being divided into three classes, and treated with more or less
kindness accordingly. True, at one time, even after the erection of this
factory, from the management being entrusted to inefficient