The New York herald., 1870-02-10
NEW YORK LIBERAL CLUB.

Memorial to Commissioners Of E4ucation--
Discovery OF Tin Orc i'm Caiif0rnia-Pnper
Depressi0ns and Elevations OF COuti-
Dents.
The seventeenth meeting OF this club was held at
No. % Third avenue last night There was large
attendance or members The secretary read a
memorial addressed to the President and Commits
sioners OF Education, New York. by the club calling
their attention "to the omission Of anything an.
preaching real moral teaching in schools OF all
Kinds, secular and denomlnatonal or religious, as
We'll that OF falling supply to those who are to
live by labor any knowledge OF the laws by
which their conduct must be guided order
that they may earn high wages ana avoid
low; or The principles which govern the rates OF
wages, the true relations of capital ana labor, to
those who are destined to administer capital any
knowledge OF the laws regulating the increase and
preservation of capital. Tne science which viii i'm
part such moral teaching and sncn knowledge the
science OF human well beng, commonly called
political economy, and praying Tor Its addition
the course or study.
The following letter was also read by the secre-
tary:-
UStTEp sTArFs GENERAL LAsp OFFICE
cADisEr OF fnAorloAL GEOLOGY ASD MlNlse,t
SIR Additional information and specimens Of lin orc
have been forwarded to this ofnce from San Jaciao,
taxable evidences Of the existence of the tin in
the demand the United states with utensils Of every sor.
Tor domestic use An average specimen OF the has been
M e. sne whe as %
cent or The inermxed with
Containing boracc acid and with casstee. 1t highly
interesting occurrence, and the yield Of tin contained the
is twice much the usual work Ing the tin
mines Of Cornwall England. The finding OF this important
metal IN California may be regarded the last crownng
which required to place California Ia advance the
H. K RoEssLER
Mr.. ADoLPH OTr read paper and introduced his
subject by giving an account OF the theories OF the
earlier geoOgists IN the revelations on the earth IS
crust He then related tue modern views and gave
general sketch OF the surface which globe pre-
sented at political efas. tie said that IL was salts
facorly proved that there were no large continents
the globe presented the aspect or large archi.
peago lie reviewed then the great service that Sir
Charles Lyell rendered to science and geology, and
then went over description Of the upward and
downward movements Of the land and
sea. Sweden Siberia and Denmark accord
ing TO the lecturer, were all TRANQUILITY
rising from the sea. Lyell established that
the elevation Of the scandinavian peninsula
amounts To over three or TOUR feet III the century.
BESIDES, 1t appears that the swedish shores OF the
Baltic experienced a subsistence OF sixty-fOur feet
since has been inhabited by man and before the
Elevation now IN progress, so That the latter must
nave commenced years ago. provided always THAT
IL was as much as above Indicated.
Inc leeturer after having dwell on this subject
M vi considerable tirne reviewed the secular de-
Pressiohs taxing place IN various regions OF tue
slooe. Darwin anu the American geologlst, Dana
ne salu lad Tor the first time ascerianed tnat the
Ieeon VI tle south sea was now In actual progress
VI uepIessloh Cheshire, In England; Normandy and
Bretagne IN Frances New Jersey and portions OF the
entire coast OF the Southern Atlantic States were
getting submerged by the ocean, He concluded a
very excellent paper by urging study OF the Book
0I Nature.