The Express. — 1859-12-02 (London, England)

RIMER SOIRBB AT LIVERPOOL.  LIVERPOOL, TEURSDAT EVININO.  A seine, under the auspices of the Financial Refers Association, bee this evening been given to lltseas. Cobden sad Bright sad Goma Perrcast Thompson, in the line wean of the Philhenande Hall. Mr. C. Ronannost (In the weldable Ilbilliel, through indisgeatica, of Mr. Robertson 131eristeas, the presisliat sf the esiociatios) presided. Yr. Cobden wee not gressat, but the following letter from bin was reed :  To Robertson Gladatotoe, Esq., Prinklett of the Liverpool Fiseactal Reforms Arnie  Peri, Nov. My dear Sir,—For the bet ten days I have been conBfined to my bedroom by severe ladlapaitioa, originating M • oold and cough, followed by fever, which has let me in • state of mondani:is debility. My medloal attendant, who mores me, with care end oan ra, a speed recovery, worm me that to andruake a journey to Liverpool to address • large politic mentors would, in the pressen stir of my leap, be almost an act of suicide. I need sot mare you how deeply I regret to be unable to fold my long-standing prong's to be with you on the lat. Ido not, bowers:, ask you to niers an bum my samurai, but only to tallow me to prime its tallithim& to • hoar% mad, I hops, early opportualiy. There rue re • moment when I felt rester interest than at prevent in the realisation of your wry's programme for aubstitatiag direct for indirect trotioa. If I require:lac illustration of the Importance of iyour principle, which implies the removal of custom-hors impedimenta between notime, I should And it in the pearl arras of Ireland and Asses.  —Whet mune this periodical visitation, which, like the cholera or some other iambus dimes, bee, every two or three years also@ 1847. caused thr pule cry ria Preach invades to overspread England, and which at the present momut Is heard again in tones as loud and ormarlag se ever f Here am I, with all my children, in the very jaws of the beiaary monster which has been conjured up to totally my countrymen, and yet I feel no lea safe from attack or try of say kind so long as I refrain from molesting or wringing *tun, than if I were residing to London or Liver. pool. Whence springs the idea of danger which pervades the public Wad st home P I attribute it mainly to the want of hi tercenuanniestion and the consequent ignorance and prejudice which prevail respecting the character and dodges of our rarest ematinental neighbour P Hero ass two of the greatest nation., separated only by the earrowest strip of ocean, with their distinct and proud stasis, their rivet traditions, their difference, in race, Magus" and religion, all tending to produce alienation ; but nature, which always works by laws of compensation, has endowed the two countries with a variety of productions, end Imparted to the popelstions so instinctive desire to supply each other's wants end dellatinciee, which, had nature's laws been allowed their tree action, would have brought the two nations into such constant contact and roam mad laid thus under inch mutual dependenco,7= have subdued the merely latent canoes of antagonism, and rendered impossible the present state of hostility and alarm. But, down almost to the present day, the guava:mate of the two oatmeal. have devoted their seeress to the task of preventing, as far as possible, say commercial Intercourse between them. The baneful consequences are smuttily such uwe behold. Let us bops that legislators will awaken to • sense of the responeiblity which attache@ to those who thus array themselves against the obvious laws of the Creator. _  Meanwhile, your society will, I hope, persevere in its useful labours, and continue to draw around you the sympathy and co-operation of good men. You are not a political organisaum ; your functions are Ursa of an educator, and your object in to prepare the public mind for the future action of the statesman. The day for the fall realising= el your views may still be remote, but, step by atop, we every year approach nearer to the desired goal. You have only to persevere in the advocacy of your humans, just, and peaceful principles, end God will assuredly, In His own good time, crown your labours with success.—Believe me, yours very truly, Rims.=