rison is
conducted. The matron, Mrs. Rawlins, upon whom the entire
responsibility of the interior management devolves, was selected
some years since, and sent over to this country by the benevolent
and philanthropic Mrs. Fry, whose exertions in the cause of female
prison reformation were extended to all parts of the British
Empire, and who, although lately summoned to the presence of her
Divine Master, has nowhere left a more valuable instance of her
sound judgment and high discriminating powers than in the selection
of Mrs. Rawlins to be placed at the head of this experimental
prison, occupied alone by females; and so successful has the
experiment been, that I understand several other prisons solely
for females have been lately opened in Scotland, and even in
Australia. In this prison is to be seen an uninterrupted system of
reformatory discipline in every class, such as is to be found in no
other prison that I am aware of.

The matron alluded to in the above extracts gratefully acknowledged that
Mrs. Fry's plan had completely succeeded in every respect, while she was
equally grateful in owning that to her instructions and wise maternal
counsel she herself owed her own fitness for that special branch of the
work.

The testimonies to her success not only came in from official quarters,
but from the prisoners themselves. This chronicle would scarcely be
complete without a specimen or two of the many communications she
received from prisoners at home and from convicts abroad. True, on one
or two occasions the women at Newgate had behaved in a somewhat
refractory manner, for their poor degraded human nature could not
conceive of pure disinterested Christian love working for their good
without fee or reward; but even at these times their better nature very
soon reasserted itself, and penitence and tears took the place of
insubordination. To those who had sinned against and had been forgiven
by her, Mrs. Fry's memory was something almost too holy for earth. No
orthodoxly canonized saint of the Catholic Church ever received truer
reverence, or performed such miracles of moral healing.

The following communication reached her from some of the prisoners at
Newgate:--

HONORED MADAM,--Influenced by gratitude to our general benefactress
and friend, we humbly venture to address you. It is with sorrow we
say that we had not the pleasure o