AND DESPATCHES OF THE EARL OF DURHAM, HER MAJESTY'S HIGH COMMISSIONER AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. LONDON: RIDGWAYS, PICCADILLY. MDCCCXXXIX. CONTENTS. THE REPORT. Duties of the High Commissioner... Extension of the Inquiry to all the North American Provinces...... Evils of present uncertainty...... Advantages derivable by the Mother Country from these Colonies... First Inquiries directed to Lower Canada... Exasperation of the two races against each other...................... Objects of the French Canadians not really democratic, nor of the |