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LORD MACAULAY ON THE SABBATH.-Of course, I do not mean that a man will not produce more in a week by working six days. But I very much doubt whether, at the end of the year, he will generally have produced more by working seven days a week than by working six days a week; and I firmly believe that at the end of twenty years he will have produced less by working seven days a week than by working six days a week. The natural difference between Campania and Spitzbergen is trifling when compared with the difference between a country inhabited by men sunk in bodily and mental decrepitude. Therefore it is that we are not poorer, but richer, because we have, though many ages, rested from our labor one day in seven. That day is not lost. While industry is suspended, while the plow lies in the furrow, while the exchange is silent, while no smoke ascends from the factories, a process is going on quite as important to the wealth of the nation as any process which is performed on more busy days. Man, the machine of machines-the machine compared with which all the contrivances of the Watts and Arkwrights are worthless -is repairing and winding up, so that he returns to his labors on the Monday with clearer intellect with livelier spirits, with renewed corporeal vigor