various topics which the Colonial Secretary has made the subject of interesting and comprehensive observation required.
3. The increase of Trade in all its branches, though not recorded in Custom House Statistics, is a matter of notoriety, — and evidenced by every indication of prosperity.
4. There is an improvement in the character of the Chinese population. Many of the natives, growing in wealth, have grown in respectability. There is more disposition than there has ever been among a better class of Chinese Traders to settle on the Island, while many great Commercial Houses in China, both British and American, have lately made Hong Kong their central point of establishment. The development of Steam navigation, the rapid extension of trading relations with Australia and California, the increase of trade on the Coasts of China, and the opening of Siam, and the security which the Flag of...