LONDON—One of the last remaining Occupy camps in a major city was shut down just after midnight on Tuesday as police here evicted an encampment that had stood outside St. Paul's Cathedral since mid October in protest of economic injustice and bank bailouts.

Occupy London said about a dozen protesters "peacefully resisted" police while others gathered on the cathedral steps in an impromptu vigil. British television reports from the scene showed police dragging away tents and scuffling with a few protesters, but little of the...