The arrivals in baked potatoes have been very numerous; fifty cans were entered outwards on Saturday. * * * * * RELATIVE GENTILITY. Two ladies of St. Giles's disputing lately on the respectability of each other's family, concluded the debate in the following way:--"Mrs. Doyle, ma'am, I'd have you know that I've an uncle a _bannister_ of the law." "Much about your _bannister_," retorted Mrs. Doyle; "haven't I a first cousin a _corridor_ in the navy?" * * * * * KEEPING IT DARK. Jim Bones, a free nigger of New York, has a child so exceedingly dark that he cannot be seen on the lightest day. * * * * * THE GENTLEMAN'S OWN BOOK. REVENONS A NOS MOUTONS--i.e. (for the benefit of country members) to return to our mutton, or rather the "trimmings." The ornaments which notify the pecuniary superiority of the wearer include chains, rings, studs, canes, watches, and purses. _Chains_ should be of gold, and cannot be too ostentatiously displayed; for a proper disposition of these "braveries" is sure to induce the utmost confidence in the highly useful occupants of Pigot's and Robson's Directory. We have seen some waistcoats so elaborately festooned, that we would stake our inkstand that the most unbelieving money-lender would have taken the personal security of the wearer without hesitation. The perfection to which mosaic-work has arrived may possibly hold out a strong temptation to the thoughtless to substitute the shadow for the reality. Do not deceive yourself; an experienced eye will instantly detect the imposition, though your ornaments may be [Illustration: FRESH EVERY DAY;] for, we will defy any true gentleman to preserve an equanimity of expression under the hint--either visual or verbal--that (to use the language of the poet) you are "a man of brass." We have a faint recollection of a class of gentlemen who used to attach an heterogeneal collection of massive seals and keys to one end of a chain, and a small church-clock to the other. The chain then formed a pendulum in front of their small-clothes, and the dignified oscillation of the appendages was considered to distinguish the gentleman. They were also used as auxiliaries in argument; for whenever an hiatus occurred in the discussion, the speaker, by having resort to his watch-chain, could frequently confound his adversary by commencing a series of rapid gyrations. But the fashion has descended to merchants, lawyers, doctors, _et sui generis_, who never drive bargains, ruin debtors, kill patients, _et cetera_, without having recourse to this imposing decoration.