We are very glad to be able to record the
growing success of the new Welsh Guards. The life of the regiment formally began last Saturday, when more than five hundred men recruited for the Grenadiers took up their quarters at the White City as the nucleus of the Welsh Guards. On Monday, which was St. David's Day, the Welsh Guards were on duty at Buckingham Palace for the first time. Some of the spectators wore the rival badges of the regiment—the leek, the daffodil, and the red dragon on a white ground. The new regiment marched to St. James's Palace playing that magnifi- cent marching tune, "Men of Harlech." On Wednesday it was announced that it bad been authoritatively settled that the badge of the regiment was to be the leek. The dragon will be borne on the King's standard, and "Cymru am Byth " (" Wales for Ever ") is to be the regimental motto.
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