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The name Rotherhithe, therefore, applied to St. Saviour's will be
inappropriate and misleading.
The trading and commercial interests of the two districts are wholly
separate and distinct, and might be better dealt with by separate
representation.
The combination for electoral purposes of two districts wholly
detached from each other, and having no interests in common, will be
unsatisfactory and attended with great inconvenience.
There is only one other instance of the kind in the Metropolis, namely
(d) of Parishes or Districts wide apart and totally unconnected,
parochially or otherwise, being amalgamated in manner proposed, and
in the case of Rotherhithe it is thought to be the result of some error
or misconception on the part of the Parliamentary draughtsman who
drew up the Bill.
The anomaly or incongruity might be avoided by the a loption of the
boundaries and titles suggested in the above resolutions; the desired
numerical proportions would still be observed, and the new Boroughs
rendered more compact and homogeneous.
The Board, in co-operation with St. Olave's, also addressed a
Petition to the House of Commons, reiterating their objections and
praying "that the Bill might be amended in such manner as to
secure a more satisfactory division of the Borough, having regard
to the retention of its name to coherent and connected areas, and
to the pursuits and the equalization of the population in the
respective areas."
Meanwhile the attention of the public had been directed by the
newspaper press, and at public meetings to the anomaly of the
proposed arrangement, as well as to the absurd shape of the new
so-called Borough of Southwark, which was compared to "a
hatchet with a block attached to the top of the blade;" Sir
Charles Dilke, from whom a very favorable reply had been
received to the communication addressed to him, admitted in the
House of Commons that the Bill was open to amendment, and it
was generally expected that some alteration would be made. The
lourth Schedule was reached some time in March last, and Mr.
(d) Westminster, which is formed by combining the Parish of St. James, Westminster,
with the District of St. Margaret and St. John's. As to the detached portion of Chelsea at
Kensal New Town it belongs to and is part of the Parish.