The Exhibits.

Never, perhaps, has so large and varied a collection of "specimens" been got together in so short a time as that occupied by the Committee of the Industrial Association in getting up the conversazione opened with so much éclat last night. Never, either, has such a heterogeneous mass of material been arranged with better effect For this the credit is due to Mr. F. Jenkins, the energetic "major domo" as he was jocularly styled by certain of his fellow-Committeemen. The appearance of the interior of the hall is certainly effective. The exhibits are disposed upon large tables, so placed as to leave a wide central promenade and two narrower passages, or aisles. The tables, covered with white cloth, relieved by a broad band of scarlet around the top, are well calculated to show to the best advantage the articles displayed upon them, and the manner in which the articles in question have been grouped enhances the general effect. The eye of the visitor, however, will, on his entering the hall, be almost surely first attracted to