The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-17 00:00:00

FOREIGN LINES.

M. DITMON, brother of the Minister of Public Works, has
been appointed Royal Commissioner to the Orleans and
Vierzon Company. •
APPROACHING ADJUDICATIONS.—The Minister of Public
Works is expected to arrive at Paris between the 21st and
the 25th of this month. After leaving Avignon, he will
visit the proposed courses to be taken by the various Lyons
lines. The period of the adjudications will not be positively
known until the arrival of M. Dumon. It appears certain
that the Paris and Strasburg Railway will not be, as some of
the journals announce, the first adjudicated, but that the
Creil and St. Quentin will take the lead. This adjudication
will take place between the 13th and 10th of November. The
Paris and Strasburg will follow, and then the Tours and
Nantes. To the latter will succeed the Lyons and Avignon,
and the Paris and Lyons will close the series. All the lines
will be adjudicated before the meeting of the Chambers.

DEATH of MRS. ELIZABETH FRY.
(Abridged from the Chelmsford Chronicle.)
This distinguished individual expired at Ramsgate on Sun-
day last, after a long and protracted illness, which she born
throughout with great fortitude and resignation.
The subject of this brief memoir was the daughter of the
late John Gurney, Esq., of Earlham- hall, Norfolk, and sister
to Samuel Gurney, Esq., of Upton-hall, in this county,
banker. At the early age of eighteen, by the permission of
her father, she converted an apartment in Earlham-hall into
a school-room, where she daily gave 24 plor children ele-
mentary instruction in reading, writing, and arithmetic, &c.
In the year 1800 she married Mr. Joseph Fry (who still sur-
vives), a member of the Society of Friends—who materially
aided her praiseworthy exertions, by appropriating a large
sum annually to her use, by which Mrs. Fry was enabled to
extend the sphere of her usefulness.
In the year 1816 Mrs. Fry succeeded in establishing a ladies'
committee for the reformation of the interior of Newgate, and
in this laudable undertaking she met with the cordial co-
operation of the Sheriffs of London and the Governor of the
Prior to the latter date the female inmates were left with-
out any employment, an evil which the discriminating
powers of the subject of this mlmoir soon discovered, and
instantly set about to remove it by the establishme-t of a
manufactory for the women's tried side, as well as a school
for children, which were daily superintended by the lathes of
the committee.

No sooner were the benefits of the manufactory known,
than the females on the untried side petitioned the ladies'
committee for a similar provision, which was granted, and
we may observe, the moral resuls sutpassed the most san-
guine anticipations of its promoters.
The subject of this memoir not only elicited the encomiums
of the English press, but her name was associated with every
philanthropic object in most of the Continental nations of
Europe. In the slave-trade question her exertions were sur-
passed only by a few of the opposite sex. Such was
her humane and benevolent disposition, that her sympathy
extended to the whole human family, without reference to
country, clime, or religion. She was looked upon as a phy-
sician to body and soul ; she fed and comforted the poor,
supplied them with clothes, and did everything that would
administer to their well-being and promote their happinesp.
In the neighbourhood where she resided (Upton, in this
county) her benevolence is too well known to need comment.
Her readiness to hear the cause of the distressed and destitute
and alleviate their sufferings, won for her the respect of all
classes, and raised for her a name which reflects the highest
credit on her sex as well as on the Society of Friends, of
which she was so distinguished a member. The funeral
of Mrs. Fry is fixed for to-morrow (Saturday) when her
remains will be interred in the Fiiends' burial-ground at
Barking.

CITY OF WESTMINSTER LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC,
AND MECHANICS' INSTITHTION.—The thirty-fourth quarterly
general meeting of this Institution, took place last evening,
Wm. Page Wood, Esq., Q C., in the chair. It appeared from
the committee's report, that the numbers were rather lower
than usual, but that the several departments of the Institu-
tion were maintained in full efficiency, and that the evening
classes, so peculiarly adapted to the wants of the mechanic,
had received especial attention from the management. A
very interesting series of public lectures was also announced
for the next quarter. A discussion ensued on a proposal to
commute certain privileges of the Institution to raise a fund
toward reducing the building debt, which was carried: and
it was also agreed, on the-proposal of Joseph Carter 'Wood,
Esq., V.P., to appoint a committee to consider and report on
various plans for the liquidation of the debt. Thanks having
been voted to the chairman, the meeting adjourned.
DEATH OF THOMAS POTTINGER, ESQ.—At Port-
Stewart, on Friday morning 4 the 10th instant, Thomas Pot-
tinger, Esq., formerly Captain in the Bth Royal Irish Dra-
goons, and Aide-de-Camp to General Sir George Nugent,
Bart., C.C.S., when commanding the forces in India. De-
cewed was the father of the late Major Eldred Pottin;_rer, the
hero of Herat, and the liberator of the Caubul captive=, by
whom a qilentlid vase testimonial ,was presented to his
family. He-received a severe wound at Hera`, which, to,',,-
ther with the fatigue he underwent, caused 145 death at
Hong-Kong.--Northern Whig.