20
from this Port for
the following
Males
Females
"places, during 1860
Header Trusher Potal. 11 fr Anstralia
24
"
San Francisco
4. Demerara
with 4,526.
8. Vancouver's Island...
1. Moulmain
being
an
4,526.
"
6,799. 441. 7,240.
961. 352. 1,313.
2,038.
66
2,038.
General observations.
10. Amongst the
in 1860 there are
174
two which deserve to be noticed
here, although they find
120
place in the accompanying volume. The first is the
assembling and
of
the
14,390 793. 15,183.
increase of 13 Ships and
4,916 Emigrants
over
fitting out here large naval and military
expedition which was dispatched
the North early
from this
for
last
this
year
the numbers
of 1859. A large part of
increase went to Vancouver's
Island, to which Port emigration from this took place
last time.
and the second is the
acquisition of
the Kowloon Peninsula.
11.
After
the events
7
last
year
a
the importance of Hongkong in political point of view can never again be questioned; and the
11