Finding it healthy, they wished to retain it as a military cantonment, with the result that Sir Harry Parkes, Consul at Canton, secured from the Viceroy a lease of the peninsula as far north as Boundary Street, including Stonecutters Island.

• 英军发现当地环境适宜，拟保留九龙半岛驻防，经英国驻广州领事白加士爵士与两广总督交涉后，获得九龙半岛南端（北至界限街）连同昂船洲的租借权。