JESUITS IN ROME.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1321, 21 August 1886, Page 2

JESUITS IN ROME.

“ The Rome correspondent of the London Standard ssyaOne of Jtfia most remarkable and sepal phenomena in Rome in the present day Is the truly surprising scale on which the Company of Jesus has been acquiring property. They have bought the hugh Coetsnzi Hotel, with Its annexed gardens, spaces, and buildings. They hare also acquired the whole of the adjacent large area of the Royal Cuirasser Gawds. They are building on the other side of the “ Vicolo Tolertlno ” Immediately opposite to. the above mentioned properties, a truly vast edifice. In truth, their establishment In this quarter will assuqn the imporjanpa almost of a tpwo. * They are also raising a vast building In the immediate neighborhood of the railway station, which, 1 believe, is Intended for their German College. They have farther, I am told, secured a large area of ground |a the new quarter, wbish is being rapidly constructed outside the Portia Pla. Perhaps (he purpose of this last purchase is speculative, and woold be in all probability a ve.y good speculation. For strange as it may appear, there Is no apparent tendency in the rents to fall from their truly preposterous figure, especially in the upper or new quarter of the city. The tendency is rather in the opposite direction, Meantime, the Propaganda have bought the large Pakzso Mtgnauelli, in their neighborhood, because they find their own colossal bqUdlno tflo small for their yarled— igainly pdfp estional—operations. The Franciscan mendicants tqraed oat from their convent on the summit of the Oapitolioe hill, to make way for the monument to Victor jffimanupl, aqd are fitflldigg a nay convent is the neighborhood' of the Lataran which will be beyond all comparison the most magnificent conventual building in Rome. And a great variety of less important male and female communities are daily acquiring new establishments in many' of (he beat positions in the -a i