Star.
London, England, 1821-07-31 00:00:00

CITY BUSINESS.

A Court of Common Council was held yesterday,
for the purpose of resuming the discussion upon the
best mode to be adopted relative to London Bridge.
The LORD MAYOR laid before the Court two letters
from the Es-Sheriff PARKINS, which were read ; and
after some discussion referred to the consideration of
a Committee appointed respecting the Office of Sheriff.
A Petition from the Owners of Coal Craft against
any toll being imposed, by reason of the rebuilding
of London Bridge, should that measure finally be
adopted, was presented and read.

'the Court then went into consideration of the Mo-
tion and Amendment, as proposed on Thursday last,
relative to the Bridge ; and after a long and animated
discussion, agreed with the original Motion for alter-
ing the present Bridge by a very great majority—
there being only about 14 hands for a new Bridge.
The Resolution was ordered to be adverti,ed—(for
which scefirst page)--and the Petition of the Owners
of Coal Craft referred to a Committee.

Several Reports for granting Leases were presented
and agreed to.

On Saturday morning last, her Royal Highness the
Princess AUGUSTA, accompanied by Count LINSIN.•
GEN and a numerous suite, left town for Ramsgate,
to embark for the Continent. The PRINCESS dined
at Mr. GREEN'S, the George Hotel, at Sittingbourne,
and was graciously pleased to express her Royal High-
ness's high approbation of the style with which that
establishment is conducted. _ _ _

A letter from an Officer attached to the Northern
Expedition says:—" If we find that so much of this
year is expended in examining Hudson's Straits as to
leave but little hopes of doing anything beyond get-
ting into Lancaster Sound, we are ordered to return
to England, to refit and revictual the ship; but a
great deal is left to the discretion of Captain PARRY,
in whom we place every confidence."
A letter from Naples announces, that there are
some bands of Carbonari under arms. The environs
of Benevento, and the vallies of Borino, are in a state
of disturbance. A Curate, BLASIO, carries off the
convoys of provisions, and levies contributions ; but, I
it is added, that even the Liberales do not reckon
much upon his movements.
A remarkable large pea was plucked on Tuesday
last, in Mr. CROICER'S garden, at Upv.-ay ; it mea-
sured five inches and a quarter from end to end, and
nearly an inch and a quarter across, containing eight
seeds, the latter not half ripe.—An extraordinary
gooseberry was gathered in a garden at Dorchester ; '
it measured an inch and three-eighths in length, and
three inches and a half in circumference.
DISPERSION OF A GANG OF GYPSIES —ln conse-
quence of depredations lately committed about the
neighbourhoods of Paddington, Edgware, and Hamp-
stead, Scc. information was laid before the Vestry of
Paddington parish, that a large gang of gypsies had
" pitched their tents" on Westbourne Green, and the
parts adjacent, and thcre was no doubt but they were
the perpetrators of some daring offences. Humphries
rand a party of officers were dispatched for the cur-
pose of dispersing them, when they found various
marquees erected in the fields, and their swarthy in-
mates
regaling themselves. The officers stated the
nature of their errand, and ordered the encampers to
disperse, which they promised to do; but there being
rather a strong party of these desperadoes, the offi-
cers were returning for the purpose of adding to
their number, when some of the gypsies, who had
laid wait for them, made an attack u7on the officers,
and a desperate conflict was the consequence. How-
ever, they succeeded in apprehending two of the
party, but the others escaped, packed up their tents,
and walked off, whilst the two prisoners were brought
to Mary-la-bonne Office, where they underwent exa-
mination. They gave their names Smith and Raj;
and said they were travelling gypsies. Ruff is a
desperate fellow, and defied the Magistrates to pu-
nish him by sending him to prison. Smith was less
violent, and expressed his sorrow for what had hap-
pened ; he was discharged, but the other was com-
lnitted for want of bail.