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。