The City Corporation, as we write on Thursday, is engaged
in discussing the revived scheme for a new bridge over the Thames immediately to the south of St. Paul's. We earnestly hope that the Corporation will delay a decision and give serious thought to the proposal made by Lord Plymouth, for the London Society, to expend the funds available from the Bridge House Estates on a new bridge at Charing Cross. There is urgent need for a new road bridge between Waterloo and Westminster, whereas few persons seriously believe that a fifth bridge into the City is required. Southwark Bridge has lately been rebuilt, and the traffic over it is relatively small. Charing Cross is outside the City boundaries, but the Corporation, as in its generous purchase of Epping Forest and Burnham Beeches, has never restricted its zeal for the good of London within the precise limits of its own jurisdiction. A new Charing Cross bridge, built at the expense of the Bridge House Estates, would confer an immense boon. on London as a whole, without affecting the City ratepayer.
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