26 NOVEMBER 1831, Page 15

UNPLEASANT MISTAKES.—Personal resemblances are no doubt very frequently so strong

as to be confounded easily. I knew an instance of a person paying his addresses to one sister, and offering to the other by mistake, was accepted and married ; and he did not discover the blunder until he found his spouse cared not for the charms of music,—an accom- plishment which the original object of his affections possessed. I also knew of an instance in which a person ran away with a young lady, where he thought he had made a sudden conquest ; but it turned out that she mistook him for his brother.—From Sckntifte Letters in the _Metropolitan.