ous
institutions of the United States can well bear its application. One of
the most noticeable results of the non-interference of the State is
pointed out in the following passage:

"To travellers in the United States, no fact has been more
immediately or more powerfully striking than the total absence of
religious rivalry. Amidst such a multitude of sects, an inhabitant
of the old world naturally, and almost instinctively looks for one
that sets up exclusive pretensions and possesses an actual
predominance. But he finds nothing of the kind. Neither
presbyterianism, or prelacy, nor any other form of
ecclesiasticism, makes the slightest effort to lift its head above
its fellow. And with the resignation of exclusive pretensions, the
entire ecclesiastical strife has ceased, and the din of angry war
has been hushed; and here, at length, the voluntary principle is
able to exhibit itself in its true colors, as a lover of peace and
the author of concord. It is busied no longer with the arguing of
disputed claims, but throws its whole energy into free and
combined operations for the extension of Christianity. The general
religious energy embodies itself in a thousand forms; but while
there is before the church a vast field to which the activities of
all are scarcely equal, there is, also, 'a fair field and no
favor,'--a field in which all have the same advantages, and in
which each is sure to find rewards proportionate to its wisdom and
its zeal. This inestimable benefit of religious peace is clearly
due to the voluntary principle."

JUNIUS, since the publication of his Letters, never figured more
conspicuously than during the last month. The _Paris Revue des Deux
Mondes_ has a very long article on the great secret by M. Charles Remusat,
a member of the Institute, well known in historical criticism. He arrays
skilfully the facts and reasonings which British inquirers have adduced in
favor of Sir Philip Francis, and the other most probable author, Lord
George Sackville. He seems to incline to the latter, but does not decide.
He pronounces that, on the whole, Junius was not "a great publicist." His
powers and influence are investigated and explained by M. de Remusat with
acuteness and comprehensive survey. Lord Mahon, in his new volumes, says,
"From the proofs adduced by others, and on a clear conviction of my own, I
affirm that t