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LONDON, S6ATURDAT, SEPT. IS.

The ceder recently promulgated by Major-
General Eras, directing the saluting of volunteer
officers by soldiers of the regular army, is a recog-
nition in a trivial point of an exceedingly import-
ant principle. The relation in which the volunteer
service, ranked as it now must be se part of the
permanent 'institutions of the country, stands on
the one hand to the general body of citizens, and
on the other to the purely military organizations,
involves a good many questions of delicacy. The
recent order appears to place one of these upon a
pound basis. Soldiers are desired to acknowledge
volunteers, when under anna, as their fellow-
moldier*, and to yield to them the customary greet-
ing with which armed parties are received. They
are also to salute officers of volunteers when in
uniform. But they are not required to salute such
officers when not in uniform, although it is
a rule that they shall salute officers of
the army, known to them, whether in
uniform or not. The distinction is perfectly
reasonable. A volunteer officer, when not on
duty, is a ample citizen ; he has no authority,
even in his own corps, save when it is under arms.
his brother volunteers do not off parade salute
him, or admit any difference in rank betwixt him
and themselves. It would obviously be improper
to require from soldiers of the Line a mark of re-
spect which his own men do not give. On the
other hand, we do not share the apprehensions ex-
pressed in the columns of a contemporary, that
soldiers will be reluctant to give the usual salute
to an officer of volunteers when he is in uniform.
There is no feeling of jealousy between the Line
and the Volunteers. Officers of volunteers who
have received instruction in the ranks of regular
troops know that from the men they have received
the most willing and good-tempered aid. When,
at the Edinburgh banquet to the 78th Regiment,
the toast of "The Volunteers" was given, the High-
landers sprang on their feet as one man, and
cheered with the most vehement enthusiasm.
These straws indicate a current of friendly feeling,
and it will assuredly not be interrupted by offi-
cial recognition of the brotherhood between the
services.

Tet, for the sake of the volunteers especially, it
is most needful that the true line of demarcation
betwixt them and regular troops should never be
forgotten by themselves. They may justly be
proud that the devotion of their hours of leisure
has made them, for all the essentials of war, no
unmeet comrades of those whese lives are dedi-
cated to military pursuits. But it would be a fatal
mistake and a heavy misfortune to the country if
they should imagine that such slight application
could make any one complete in all that belongs to
a soldier's training. Even in the mere mechanical
recision of movement it would be impossible to
expect that drill twice a week can produce equal
expertness with drill twice a day. The instan-
taneous obedience to the word of command which
makes the will of the commander seem the
motive poser which thrills through the
nerves of every man of a whole battalion,
is the result of long and incessant practice. Volun-
teers know the meaning of the orders given, but
their obedience is reflective, that of the veteran
is instinctive. Nor is the difference merely in
show—it may on a sudden surprise be worth
many a life. And therefore eves in this rudi-
mentary matter, volunteers, while capable of doing
inestimable service, must always be content to
confess su inferiority to regular troops. In the
higher keowiedge which is essential to the chili-
ravter of the perfect soldier they must necessarily
be deficient. Very few among them have the
time needed for the scientific study of the art of
war. No do.ibt many an office,: of the army is u
ignorant of his profession as any volunteer ; but
this is his individual fault, ansl not the degradation
of the profession. Many a barrister is very igno-
rant of law, many a doctor fatally innocent of the
pnnciples of medicine. lint it does not follow
that one who has given an hour a day to the study
of jurisprudence or physic is entitled to rate him-
self as on a par with the general body of members
of these professions.

There is the more readmit that volunteers should
bear in mind this essential distinction betwixt
them and regulars, because it is very certain that
the public at large wall unconsciously give it effect.
An 'loin. ut wnter has lately traced the roots of
honour w every profess= to the implied duty of
its members to give their lives, if need be, is
sacrifice to the highest duties it can demand- He
traces, therefore, the respect which in every time
has peculiarly been lavished on the soldier, to the
circumstance that the leading object of his pro
feriae binds him to be ever ready to die for lug
country. Whether the theory be sound or not, it
suggests a sufficiently broad and unquesticsably
sleet reason why the volunteer should, IS a 801-
dier, be KIPS in popular honour than the regular.
The volunteer's duty s imtte l u one event to
offer up his life, lint it is only in the little pro.
liable event of an invvaion. The regular soldier
must bold h.a hfe in every climate and at every
hour in hazard. His work is incessant ; the