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SPANISH PAPERS.

MADRID, OCTOBER 23.

In the Sitting of the Cortes on the 20th, the Com-
mittee of Rewards reporting oa the distinguished ser-
vices rendered to the country by Generals Riego,
Quiroga, Lopez Banos, Arco Aguero, Ohati, Espi-
nosa, and Colonel Latre, is of opinion, that they
'should be rewarded with real estates belonging to
the Monks before they are placed to the public cre-
dit ;to which it proposes—l st, That to each of the
Generals Riego and Quiroga be assigned an annual
revenue, in perpetuity, for themselves and their suc-
cessors, of 80,000 reals, consisting of real estates.-
2d, That the said Generals be recommended to his
Majesty, that he may be pleased to confer on them
Castilian titles of Nobility.—Sdly, That to each of
the other Generals above named be assigned an an-
nual revenue, for himself and his successors, of 40,000
reals.--4thly, To (01. Latre, in like manner, a reve-
nue of 20,000 Teals. That this affair be recommended
to the Government, and that henceforward no repre-
sentation shall be decreed by the Cortes, tending to
ask rewards for services performed in the restoration
of liberty, but that it should be merely recommended
to the Government. The decision on this Report
was deferred till his Majesty shall have sanctioned
the Decree relative to the Monks.

In the evening Sittings of the 20th and 21st, the
Cortes were entirely occupied in the discussion of the
31st Article of the Project of the Law on the im-
portant subject of Public Instruction.

CRAP. 1.--• GENERAL CASKS OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

Anr. 1. All instructions paid for by the State, or
given by any Corporation, by the authority of the
Government, shall be public and uniform.—Approved.
4. In consequence, the method of instruction shall
be the same, as well as the elementary books destined
W it.

Senor Polarea thought, that to confine public in-
struction to the same elementary books, was esta-
blishing a kind of literary despotism ; andi besides,
as we have not such ourselves, in all branches of
learning, this uniformity would be of no use with
respect to some ; as would be the case in the sciences
of mathematics, natural philosophy, &c.
Senor Vaigai Ponae, one of the Committee, cons
tended, that every inconvenience would be avoided
by establishing a Board of Education, charged to
attend to the improvements that might be made, and
occasionally to adopt the best elementary books.
The Article was approved.
3. Public education shall be gratuitous.—Approved.
4. The preceding Articles have no reference what-
ever to private education, which shall be absolutely
free, tile Government exercising no other authority
over it than what is necessary to maintain the rules
of good order, in other professions equally free; and
to hinder the teaching of doctrines contrary to the
Divine Religion which the nation professes, and
tending to the subversion of principles sanctioned
by the Political Constitution of the Monarchy.—
Approved.

CHAPTER M....DIVISION OF INSTRUCTION. -

ART. 5. Public instruction is divided into three
classes; first, second, and third.—Approved. The
rest of this Chapter, to Art. 17 inclusive, relates to
the first, on primary instruction, confined to the first
elements of education, viz. reading, writing, com-
mon arithmetic, a short catechism of the dogmas of
religion and the maxims of good morals; arid ano-
ther, political, explaining the rights and duties of
citizens. The Articles regulate the number of pri.'
wary schools, according to the population, the elec-
tion of masters, &c.