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100,000 souls. Its revenue someching like £90,000 p.a. Canton is fast deteriorating everyday, and the only bar to the further progress of Hong Kong is the very limited sea frontage available in the town of Victoria, and which can no longer be made, at any amount of outlay of money, Suspending an additional sea face could be given to it there is every reason to suppose that the remaining trade of Canton would be diverted here, and that here would be made the entrepot for all the goods which must be brought to feed the Gangsze Kiang and the various other ports now for the first time opened to Europeans.
Only one portion of the newly acquired Kowloon ground can be made available for warehouses, and for the necessary mercantile residences which must be erected in contiguity to these warehouses, and that portion is the one nearest to the town of Victoria, jutting out into the centre of the Harbour, being less than 1000 yards water transit from the heart of the town. The Colonial Authorities desire to have this portion, allotting a part of one side of it to be barracks, and placing the troops who will have in their rear an open country of considerable extent, and removed from all those town attractions in the shape of brothels and grog shops.