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London, England, 1845-09-29 00:00:00

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STATISTICS OF THE ORDER OF
THE JESUITS.
There has appeared at Leipsic (says the Constitution-
nel) a very interesting work on " the actual organise-
tiou of the Company of Jesus." The information which
it discloses (founded upon documents, says the writer,
which have been obtained for the major part at the price
of considerable sacrifices, which he was obliged to make
in order to secure their authenticity), upon the position
of the Jesuits in various parts of the world, has never
before been published in so complete a form. The diffe-
rent establishments of the order are variously called.
There are the Houses of Profession, which possess no
property, and in which the father Jesuits—the professed
of the order, live in common. The Residences are esta-
blishments of less importance, and have the right of
possessing property. The Houses, properly so called,
are embryo establishments in countries where the Com-
pany has tried to penetrate. The missions are formed
by isolated Jesuits, who feel their way. A mission be-
comes by degrees, by the adjunction of new members, a
college, or a nursery, for the Company, or a home of
probation, or a residence. The seminaries are the spe-
cial establishments in which the Society gives its theo-
logical instruction. The members may be divided into
three great classes :-Ist, the Priests, amongst whom
are all the professed ; 2d, the Scholars and the Novices ;
and 3d, the Brothers occupied in domestic services and
with the material cares of the establishments. In 1626,
eighty-six years after the foundation, and under its sixth
General, Mutius Vitelleschi, the Company reckoned 29
provinces in Europe, viz., 4 in Italy, 2 in Sicily, 1 in
Sardinia, 5 in Spain, 5 in France, 3 in Belgium, 1 in
Scotland, 1 in Ireland, 5 in Germany, and 2 in Poland
Out of Europe it had established 5 residences in
the Turkish dominions, 2 provinces in the East
Indies, lin the Philippines, 1 in China, 1 in Japan,
and sin America. These provinces contained 803 esta-
blishments, thus classed :-26 houses of profession, 222
residences, 51 places of probation, 48 seminaries, 542
colleges, and 71 missions. The monopoly of teaching
was then almost everywhere in their hands by means of
the colleges. They had 108 colleges in Spain, 79 in
France, 91 in Germany, 36 in Belgium, and 29 in Po-
land. The number of members of the Company was
15,493, of whom 13,369 were in the provinces of Europe.
The order continued from year to year to progress. In
1749, they had 89 houses of profession, 669 colleges, 61
places of probation, 176 seminaries, 335 residences, 073
missions. The personnel amounted to 22,589 members,
of whom 11,239 were priests. The documents relative
to the following years are not so complete. On the sup-
pression of the order by Pope Clement XIV., in 1773,
most of those papers were destroyed. Notwithstanding
the Papal ball, the Society continued to exist openly in
Russia. The chiefs, in the interval. and until 1805,
when the order was re-established by a bull of Pope
Pius VII., assumed (instead of the name " General ' )
the title of " Vicars-General in White Russia." It is
now forty years since the Company has been re-consti-
tuted in an official manner. Its progress was at first
slow and concealed. Towards the end of the Restora-
tion (of the elder Boarbons) the order was beginning to
raise its head and to assume the boldest attitudes ; but
the revolution of 1830 arrested it in its progress. It dis-
appeared again, waiting till the storm should pass away.
It soon resumed its confidence, and it now openly pro-
Claims its intention to reassume all the influence which
it possessed in the days of its splendour. The check
which the popular will, energetically expressed, has just
made it undergo in France, will not discourage it, or
cause it to relinquish its projects. The struggle
will continue under another form. In and out
of Europe the Society of Jesus actually possesses
fourteen provinces—those of Rome, Sicily, Naples,
Spain, :Oasis, Lyons, Belgium, England, Austria, Ger-
many, Ireland, Maryland, and Missouri. The order
reckoned in these provinces, on the first of January,
1838, 173 establishments, and 3,067 members ; on the
Ist of January, 1841, 211 establishments, and 3,565
members ; on the Ist of January, 1844, 233 establish-
ments, and 4,133 members. Thus in the space of six
years there has been an increase of sixty establishments
and 1,066 members. In 1844 the increase was still
more rapid. In the seven provinces of Rome, Sicily,
Turin, Paris, Iltons, and Belgium, the oily ones con-
cerning which the of accounts has reached Rome,
the order had an accessi( n from the Ist of January,
1844, to the 1s„ of January, 1845, of 394 new members.
Indeed the reception of new members had become so
numerous, that Father Rothaan, the General of the
Order, has deemed it necessary, in a circular to the
provincials, dated March, 1844, to point out the dangers
of so rapid an increase. The province of Rome reckoned,
on the Ist January, 1845, 702 Jesuits. It is at Rome that
the General of the Order resides, and in that city are con-
centrated the principal establishments. The Company
has there its more important house of profession, and a
college specially destined to form priests for Germany.
It has besides, at Rome, a college and a residence; a
place of probation, properly so called; a place of proba-
tion of the third degree; a school for noble boarders;
and a seminary where missionaries are brought up for
the Society of the Propagation of the Faith. The other
establishments of the province of Rome are generally
colleges, by means of which the Jesuits have the complete
control of the education of the youths. In the province
of Sicily the order is most flourishing, as also in those of
Naples and Turin. In the province of Spain its estab-
lishments have been disorganised by the political events
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some of -the large towns of Spain: Where revs _'
90 Jesuits belonging to the sanatiprovince, bat they had
retired -into -other countries. -This province pos-
sesses a college and residence at Nivelles, in Bel-
gium, and a residence at Aire, in France. This
province has, in South America, residences in
Paraguay, Uruguay, La Plata, the Brazils, New
Granada, and Chili. The province of Paris consists of
Paris and of the North of France. On the Ist of Janu-
ary, 1441, this province contained 291 Jesuits, and on
the Ist of January, 1845, 420 Jesuits. It had residences
and seminaries at Paris, St. Acheul, Strasburg, Nantes,
and many other cities and towns. As the colleges
are not open to them in France, they found one at
the very entrance of the kingdom, viz., at Brugelette,
in Belgium, and it depends on the province of France.
This province has besides missionaries in Canada
and China, and two establishments in North
America. The province of Lyons comprises the
South of France. It contained 290 Jesuits in 1841, and
446 on the Ist of January, 1845. There were residences,
&c., at Lyons, Aix Bordeaux, and the principal towns of
the South. This province had also Jesuits in Algeria,
and missionaries in the East Indies, in the Island of
Madura, on the north-east of Java, in Syria, and in Ma-
dagascar. The province of Belgium 'is one of the most
flourishing at this moment. There were 319 Jesuits in
1841, and 472 in 1845. They have colleges at Alort,
Antwerp, Gand, Brussels, &c. &c., besides residences.
This province has missions in Holland, and also in Gua-
timala (recently suppressed). The province of England
comprised 140 Jesuits in 1841, and 164 in 1844. They
have I:eia 33 establishments, viz., houses, colleges, resi-
dence. or else simple missions. They venture to show them-
selves less openly in England than in other countries. The
colleges take here the names, not of the towns, but of saints,
such as St. Ignatius, St. Thomas of Canterbury, &c.
&c. Their principal establishment in the college and
seminary of Stonyhurst, in Yorkshire, where there are
20 priests, 26 novices, and 14 brothers. The province
of England has twenty missionaries at Calcutta. The
English Government protects them as well as the Pro-
testant missionaries, when they are able to serve its mer-
cantile views in that part of the world, and at this mo-
ment it is helping them to found a new college, specially
destined for China. The province of Austria had
268 Jesuits in 1841, and 310 in 1844. It has col-
leges in various cities. The province of Germany
chiefly consists of Switzerland. There were several
Jesuits in 1841 in Bavaria. At Dresden, the con-
fessor of the late king was a Jesuit. The Company
of Jesuits is waiting for the time when it may under-
take the re-conquest of Germany, and it exercises mean-
while its influence in that country by means of the
German college established at Rome, for forming secular
priests to be spread throughout Germany, Hungary, and
Switzerland. Between 1822 and 1842, 125 of these
priests have been sent into Germany, and 64 into Swit-
zerland. The vice-province of Ireland reckoned 63
-Jesuits in 1841, and 73 in 1844. They have in Ireland
three colleges. The provinoe of Maryland comprises
establishments in Colombia, Maryland, Massachussets,
and Pennsylvania. The numbers were 109 in 1841, and
121 in 1844. The vice-province of Missouri comprises
the establishments of Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio, the
Rocky Mountains, and the neighbouring country. It
possesses the colleges of St. Louis, St. Charles, tiro.
The mission in the Rocky Mountains consists of
llve
priests and six brothers. Total number in 4iisprovitris
24 in 1841, and 139 in 1844. Such is the position of
Society throughout the world.

The account of
PRINCE ALBERT'S GAMEKE$1'.SE
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months old. But even under these circumstances, every
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possible
Albert, on learning the occurrence, gave orders that
Topp should be dismissed from his service.
STATE Or TRADE.—The demand for this past
week has been tolerably good. There is an increased de-
mend for under-clothing, as lambs'-wool shirts, drawers,
&c., as well as for lambs'-wool hose. Wools and yarns are
firm ; lambs'. wool yarn scarce and dear. There is every
prospect of a continuance of the present demand for some
time to come. The improved condition of the working-
classes (in consequence of the low price of food) has induced
an increased consumption of the better styles of womena'-
blacks and other goods, so that there is a far less demand for
straight down hose and inferior styles, and a far greater de-
mand for country wrought hose. This is an interesting evi-
dence of the improved condition of the working-classes.--
Leicestershire Mercury.
LEWES, SEPT. 25.—An alarm was occasioned in
the town last night (Wednesday), about eight o'clock, by
the servant of the Hon. General Trevor, riding post haste up
the High-street, and shouting " Fire, Fire." It appeared that
he had been dispatched to procure the borough engine in
consequence of a fire having been discovered in a barn and
out-buildings belonging to the general, and in the occupa-
tion of Mr. John Ellman. The high estimation in which
both these gentlemen are held induced hundreds of persons
to repair instantly to Glynde to render assistance, and they
were quickly followed by the engine. On their arrival,
however, great difficulty was found in obtaining water, the
scene of the fire being some distance from the village; and
we regret to state that a large barn, containing 20 loads of
new wheat, with stables and other buildings and four stacks
of hay, were entirely consumed. We hear that the whole
was insured. It is conjectured that the fire was occasioned
by a spark falling from the pipe of one of the labourers who
had been smoking on the premses.—Brighton Herak