The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-11 00:00:00

ant for Curate

parish of D-, with a population of between
8.000 and 9,100, manufacturing and poor: application for

t,urair.
parish of T-, with a population of 14,000
is po,r, and exceedingly immoral. The Society
a grant for a Curate; and the Incumbent now ar-
another grant for a lay-assistant.
many similar cases which mizlit be mentioned,
rfully to the heart of every Christian, and cape-
chman, who desires to see the benefits of
and practically enjoyed by every

our land.
if the Church Pastoral-Aid society to fur-
nt of this desirable object ; and that, not by
ewly-canstructed machinery, but simply, by
more effectually to employ the admirable
means which she has long posseas•-d. The Corn-
therefore, invite arid entreat their fellow-Christians
low. Churchmen to aid them in the good work in which
•e engaged ; to assist them in multiplying the means of
a instruction, by proportioning in some reasonable
'• nal pastors to that of our large and

the number of spr

t lial)ilities of the Society are £24,385 ; whereas
the last year was only £19.665; whilst the
nvested property has been reduced to £2,300 Hence
'lnt unless the funds of the Society are con-
the Committee will be under the pain-
.. only of refusing aid to fresh applicants, but
awing it from some to whom it has been already

itK income durir

twill appear

3 ecefisity not

Society at present in operation support
lergymeri and thirty-four lay-assistants,
ner ft,,num. In addition to these,

.Aergymen, and three for lay-
, operation, requiring a further sum of £-1,160
ien all the appointments shall have been made by
ta. The Incumbents aided by the Society have

erase the chttrgeOf -7,M10 souls, with an average

and no lesS than 139 are without parsonage-

.tee earnestly request their friends in the
in for the Society additional annual subscrip-
.ltions after sermons, and to promote the
iliary Associations. Ladies who kindly
quarterly and other collections, will ren-
ntial service to the Society. The Society's papers
. meal distribution• and collecting cards, will be forwarded
on application to the Secretary.
~stions of any amou_notffiwill be thankfully received in
t.; mittee, or Secretaries • also
,n, by the Treasurer,
. tams, Deacon, and
Herries, Farquhar, and Co..
at the banking-houses of Meg" W.ll.
Co, Birchin-lane ; and Me"'
St. James's-st— • and by Messrs. Seeley, Hatchard, and
Nisbet ' It is requested that communications
The Secretaries of the Church Pasto-
. ~hers, Falcon-court, Fleet-

undertake to 1117th

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

INDIA

The intelligence received at Bombay just as the steamer
containing the Overland Mail was about to sail is, if true—
when taken in connection with the other undoubted occur-
rences—of 'the most momentous importance. Firstly, then,
it is certain that all the tribes of Affgbanistan are more or
less in arms against the British forces ; to use the prophetic
language of Sir Henry Willock, " every man in the country
is at enmity with us ; the public roads are infested with rob-
bers, and communication with distant parts is only practi-
cable for large detachments," and even for large detachments
with difficulty and through slaughter. General Sir R. Sale,
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on his return to india with his brigade 3.600 strong, nas
literally had to cut his way through the Koord pass ; and
after fifteen days' hard fighting over silty miles of ground,
and losing 240 men and ten officers, he escaped total destruc-
tion, not by victory, but from the want of skill of the enemy
And e% _ _.. . .

—Gti at the latest dates the safety of his brigade was
very doubtful. Secondly, it is scarcely to be doubted that
near Candahar, Captain Woodburn and 100 men had been
attacked, and, after a desperate resistance. slaughtered to a
man by the Affgbans.
Thirdly, it is almost certain that 5,000 additional troops
were under orders for instant march to Affghanistan, which
will make no trifling addition to the five millions sterling
which the possession of that country, it is estimated, will,
during 1842, without any extraordinary occurrences, cost
India.
This intelligence is sufficiently disastrous, but worse re-
mains behind. if it can be relied on. Cabocl itself is re-
ported to be in insurrection, and amongst the first victims of
the revolt is said to have been Sir Alexander Burnes, than
whom British India does not possess an abler servant or a
more gallant man. The Agra Ukhbar in making this state-
ment doubts its accuracy, and these doubts are repeated by
the Bombay Times: still, whatever may be its truth or fal-
lacy, our envoy at that capital, with 10,000 men at his com-
mand, appears to be literally in a state of blockade.