EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 574, 1 February 1851, Page 1 (Supplement)

EXTRACTS.

The officers to be attached to the Board of Trade as assistants for carrying out the provisions of the Mercantile Marine Bill, are Capt. F. W. Beechey, R.N. F.R.S., and Captain alker. Captain Beechey distinguished himself in the expedition to the North Pole in ISIS and ISI9, of which he published an interesting account ; and he has since raised his name high as a navigator and an author by his survey of the coast of Africa and his voyage in the Pacific and Arctic oceans. Captain alter was formerly ?.n officer in the rOQt Tnnm AT J . 1 iuuia vvujpauy o il-Lttiiut, ilLld SIUUS tils expiration of their charter has for many years been in the command of some of the largest of the ships belonging to Messrs. Green, of Blackwail. — Globs. The International Exhibition. —lt is, perhaps, questionable whether London ever held so distinguished a position, or whether Britain was ever so truly great, in the sicht of all nations, as at this moment, in anticipation of that grand cosmopolitan centralization of the whole world's enterprise, which will virtually elect the capital of England into the commercial metropolis of the nations. For then, without the slightest vestige of a hyperbole, will there be here assembled the representative fruits of the genius and industry of “ every nation under Heaven,” to do homage to the pre-eminence of every British Empire, as at least the central mart for all, whatever be the result to it in particular, as that “Great Babylon” to which “ all the merchants of the earth” will doubtless be devoted till the ominous end of their commercial empire. The several announcements of the intention of many of the more civilized nations on the continent of Europe and America to take part in the great jubilee or fair have long been made known, as indeed have subsequently those of the less civilized Asiatic nations — such as the Hindus, Chinese, and Persians. Still more recent announcements are those from Turkey, the Sultan having decided that specimens of Turkish manufactures shall be sent to the Exhibition ; and from Peru, the President of which has issued a decree appointing a commission to select and take charge of the Peruvian contributions. In short, the whole world is astir, and London and its next year’s sights are the anticipative subject of the whole world’s wonder and expectation, from the present time forth till the grand consummation.— The Builder.