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IN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND. 99 love through the Redeemer : both died in the Hospital, to all appearance deeply penitent."

The "Scottish Ladies" still persevere in their benevolent course in seeking the evangelization of the female prisoners; and Mrs. Fry must have been delighted, in her state of declining health, to learn their progress in 1844. Their Report, as given in the Report of the British Ladies' Committee for that year, states, "Although they have no cases of a very striking nature to communicate, they rejoice that they have not been altogether left without some encouraging fruit of their labours. Whilst all the prisoners have received with apparent thankfulness the visits of the Ladies, several of them have evinced an anxious desire for instruction, and others seemed softened and subdued when listening to the word of Holy Scripture, that blessed word, which not only reveals the fearful doom of the finally impenitent and unbelieving, but points the awakened sinner to 'the Lamb of God,' whose 'blood cleanseth from all sin.' During the past year, four girls have been admitted into the Institution at Dean Bank, and are giving satisfaction to the Matron. One promising young woman was sent home by the aid of the Committee to her respectable parents at Peebles. Two other individuals are filling situations as servants, and affording satisfaction to their employers.

"The Edinburgh Prison Association make