The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-30 00:00:00

EMBARKATION Or TOO!!.

The Royal Mail siesswir Canada, which sailed
from Liverpool as Saturday far Halifax sad Roam. besides
the amid nails, tool out sixty officers awl two hundred
sad tereety•three men. together with • huodred and three
toss of siolitary sloes Of these, four officers sod • how-
dred are of the Royal Eagimers, together with six mss
of the Army iliwpitel Corps sod ementy•thiee tens of
stores, ere for Bermuda. sit officers soil a hindmost sad
sawastata rasa, forming No. It Garrison Battery ef the
Royal Artillery together with htty pillion of other carps
sad thirty tens of storm, are for Newimeadland. The Come-
dian mail Mesmer Hibernian, which is to mil hems on the
ail of January, sill take out five officers sinl one hes-
dred owl twisty nee, hang the 4th company of the
Royal Regemere ; °doers and j.O huadre.; sad
tiny-lire men, forming the 4th Brigade of No. It Battery
of the Hovel Artillery ; six Olken and a hen.
*el soil eventern ass, lUsh Brigade of No. 6
Battery of the Royal Artillery ; and four officers, to-
gether with II humlnel and forty-aseen Ines, Wag • detach-
meet of the 1.-alt Yost, 'Reesare kr Hakim TM Peelle
Steam Navigation Company's magailimai sew steams. rant.
winch was to bare sided as hasonlay with winfarammotalls
ef saes sad marinas for ear Pat& squadrce, has hen
"Wawa by oaks of government, sad is to hawthorn& to.
intwrow (Tatelty). The British and Nava MIMS= Loyal
Mail itnioner Africa, which is to sail 15... es Sattudiy, the
4th .4 deanery, fur New Vern, will take est six officers and
• latedred earl woresteen men, fermis, N. 7 Battery of the
Royal Artillery for Halifax. ISM will also take oat tea
Maws sad two hundred sod thirty-four wee, being the
181 h Vet t& of No. 23 Battery .4 the Royal Artillery, sad
Any tom of military stores for Bermuda. Other steam-
Mips sod military corps are also spokes dm be immune
ef prepestas far departure from Liverpool. Awed those
lOW sailed in the Almada were a vest many adore of the
we. ineledise I •ohael Mas/awana sad Coked Tardy*, ;
Lint. Con. Wows mid Taylor; the Awe. Auderame,
chaplain In the foram; I arariPONA-Oeittra UW.1.14 i
Heim 3114 'tea NargeoiaMajor Malleneld ; rrleelpal Pur-
veyor likirria, I spray• Porvey.e liammemd; Illlapteln W. B.
OMSK. awl many "Vivre. The Canada aim trek eat
50.01 W. *a government w.ouuL 11% Friday eelling between
AIM sad sixty seders and about forty 1011111111116 wind in
Imerpal by railway, bred inimelearly prosesded as board
the Mmittais, wham, they will remain till they are Maas-
=4 ado the Perm te Nis Me Peale equadres. The
were ars eel with entWels, and the marines were is
regimental suirehing "miler. The emharketrue of the troops
ems a... 1 aiti•Lichirily acwomplehal wider the ouperui-
teaser* of Colossi Greatheed. goarterniastirrOmmral of
the Hetrick sad thatiaawkr Ley...eater, R.N., Admiralty
swat lee LiveepooL Mr. Durefook the military store-
keeper at Ureter, has bees unremitting is his stemma is
'hippies the sauna —Licerpoti

21111 VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT.

(From' t►e 01serwr.)

•
We arre not amongst those who believe for one
merest that oar difficulty with Amerca, sod the probability
of
ear volunteers hang called into something like active est-
• came the volunteers to show the " white feather," sad
irk onto( their responsibility, hut certately the met number
to reeksatioes which are taking place is cartons corps stanch
1001111e111 look ominous. The forte will speak for three-
helve*. Every thneite published within the het month ar
sit weeks has liven occupied with Use acceptance of lesiva-
tures of met numbers of volunteer officers ;•ml when officers
resign, the men quit the service in a very much lure
proportioe. truly so meetly ea in the rAizrlte k ric
day i. an anummestairet that her Nerdy has bees
greri•oi Ay filmed to accept the resignation of one of
the .4.6.4 centaur of • metropolitan volunteer corpei; and
undid, rim head of the Laamshire Volunteers,' s the
mine ,:u;•"•. there are " Memoranda," rionotunialf that
the 14 Administrative Batialioe of tameable* Volunteers
• di..ohml, nail that the meek., of the lonotesset-colonel,
the major. the surgeon, and other officer., hays been da-
mmed wilt. In the metropoliten corps, more especially.
the Si iuher of neigeatioes he. hem very great, whilst the
new enrolments are comparatively rosigarecant. 7 lie ques-
ta.. therefore, seises, what are the circumstances which
have led to such a result ! In the first place. the
coarse ..itrudr•l by certain corarraadieg Mime, and the
abortion amotti.l irrr. the 'memorial adjutant., have
leech to do with the faille' off is the effective strength
of our volunteer 11111711111P54 How can it be ex-
piated that men of leiter...drat spirit or mealy feeling me
mimeo to be treated like tiers veilitini, whoa fourteen days'
twice. and the paynaat of their liabilities to the mrie to
which the! may happes to Wang, will relieve them from
taireion or ineimte... Moreover, example oe the part of
temmandeete Ammayso has much to do with the matter.
A vigilsot. efficient, and coesidernta orminamler can keep
bath officers sad men together, whikt one who treats his
officers io a supercilious miaow., scarcely ever attending to
his own duties. but leaving the cornmeal of hie corp. to his
adjoined Ishtar-ash he reeks am the junkie to all the other
*wished, and who honks upon the mem so mere
asisithwei sulieereteet ooly to ha will or caprice,
sad without any iniuda of their owe. ran seaseely expect
is find his regiment in any other than a friliag sail dia.
siespaird ceaditim. Hut however largely these cireum•
stiriesas may have L./attributed to a diminution of the Yolun.
ter rash., there ere *Han of a social character which have,
to all ratability, as morh, if nut more, to do with the
ressmatims referred te than any ether. It cannot but he
• more for Jeep regret to all who ham takes any interest in
the yolustecr looseness( to home that there WO very large
neathers of rennin men asarieg the warking.eleases who
ham already hem mespelled be jail the rues, sad thah