16 FEBRUARY 1929, Page 2

On Tuesday the Bill of the' Corporation Of I.ondOn to

extend the time. for the building of the proposed St. Paul's _Bridge was _ defeated. That. veteran Londoner, Sir William Bull, Sir.Mar tin Conway, a true. connoisseur, and Lord halniel, who perhaps filially but . unofficially represented the Fine Arts Commission, had led the opposition to the Bill on account of the threat to St. Paul's Cathedral, of the adverse opinion of the Royal Commis- sion on Cross-River Traffic, of the greater congestion of traffic threatened in the City, and of the increased diffi- culties of navigation of the river. This rejection of the Bill means that the House wants no St. Paul's Bridge, but except for Clearing the air it brings us no nearer to the realization a the Royal Commission's recommen- dations.

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