Many aspirants for wedlock have sundry misgivings about certain traditionary repulsions which are said to exist between love and poverty, and, uninfluenced by the charms of matrimony, think only of the possible consequences. Not a few, however, regard marriage as too serious an affair for sport or speculation. They think it very difficult for mortals who know so little of themselves to know much about other people, and that though matches in rank and money are daily seen to be very practicable, yet that matches in mind are still as difficult as Dryden represented them— "Minds are so hardly match'd, that e'en the first, Though pair'd in Heaven, in Paradise were curs'd." People of this sort contemplate marriage in a very unpoetical manner. They have great faith that correct intention and common sense are the best guides; and, although they may not feel less transported with their prospects than other people, they are apt to remember that it is "transportation for life." A great deal has been said of the marriage of Abernethy, and very much of it in proof of his eccentricity of character; but if a steady reliance on earnestness, sincerity, and common sense, on an occasion on which one or other of these qualities are sometimes laid aside, and the employment of the highest qualities of the mind for the most important purposes be wise, we must, if we admit the eccentricity of Abernethy, concede to him the less-equivocal merit of practical wisdom. Himself a sensible and clever man, and a great admirer of these qualifications in others, he was not very likely to ally himself to any lady who appeared deficient in such characteristics. Abernethy had a very quick perception of character, and his profession afforded him ample opportunities for the exercise and the cultivation of this faculty. He would not have been very likely to lay it aside on an occasion when a judicious and successful exercise of it, as distinguished from mere impulse or first impression, is of more consequence than on almost any other. Miss Anne Threlfall was the daughter of a gentleman who had retired from business, and who it appears had been residing in the town of the far-famed Edmonton. This lady was intimate with the family of Mr. Hodgson, where Abernethy was also a frequent visitor. It was at Mr. Hodgson's that Mr. Abernethy first made the acquaintance of her who was destined to exert so considerable an influence on his future happiness. In the unrestrained intercourse of the society of intimate mutual friends, a man of Abernethy's penetration would not be long in discovering the amiable or the estimable qualities of an agreeable woman.