The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-03-01

attempt to Assassinate the Queen of Spain.
The precipitation with which the execution
of the assassin has been carried into effect is
generally disapproved, as evncing desire to
hush up all inquiry. / find some particulars
in the Constitutional, besides those which l
have already sent to you. 1t seems that at
the moment when the Queen extended her
hand towards Merino, meaning to receive the
petition that she supposed he wished to pre-
sent, he seized her with his left, and stabbed
her with his right. The Queen instantly ut
tered shrink so piercing that it was heard
from one extremity of the palace to the other.
The poniard had been so vigorously and sure
ly directed that it went through the thick vel
vet dress, the under garments, and the stays,
and entered the body of the Queen just above
the groin. Count Pino- Hermoso, who, as you
are aware, rushed up in time to parry second
blow has, it is said, his fingers almost cut off.
The Princess Royal was between her Majes-
ty and the King, carried on cushion by
the Marchioness de Povar. On hearing the
Queens cry, this lady's nerves failed her, the
royal infant slipped off the cushion and fell to
the ground The morse who followed was
pressed upon by the crowd, and sank down in
a corner in fainting fit. When the Queen,
after being carried to her room, asked for her
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where the infant was, and that IT was after
wards found in the gallery in the arms of a hal
berdier, who had picked the poor thing up
The public mind in Madrid is in the greatest
alarm. The extraordinary shrek of the Queen
which was heard by SO many, leads to the be-
lief that there must be some organic injury
People rake up various sinister predictions.
1t is remembered that sister Monja Pratroci.
MO, a nun, who is believed to have oil the
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body, and who is venerated by multitudes of
the superstitious, said of the queen, She will
bring forth child, bat she will not live.'-
The political consequences of the demise of
the crown at this moment. are appalling TO
think of. In the present state OF SPAN no.
body believes that a regency of IL years, with
the crown on the head of child of six weeks
old, is a regime that could last many hours
In Paris it is considered almost certain that
civil war would break out at once. am
anxious not to exaggerate the grounds for
alarm.
The person of the sovereign is so sacred
that in theory it is not admitted to be accessi-
BILE to the common ills of humanity. When a
King of Spain dies, it is customary fos grand
officer of State to go up to the bedside aud ask
the corpse when it will be his Majesty's pleas
ure to rise. 1t is we'll known that the death
of Ferdinand VII. was concealed for long
Tune. nave now before tne ufa"inS Dook
la copy of which l send you) showing the
exact form and length OF the fearful instrument
with which the wound was inflicted. The
blade is about ten inches long. Now it ap-
pears from one of the earliest bulletins hat
the wound is from seven to eight "lignes," or
about three quarters of an inch in length at
the orifce. Measuring upwards from the
tapering point of the pongiard find tba- it must
have penetrated to the depth of at least four
inches to have made wound of that size. 1t
is, therefore, evident that what the bulletins at
first spoke of as slight wound must have
been very serious one, and the subsequent
bulletins must be received with proportionate
distrust.
You already know that the ponigard is de-
scribed as Of Albacete manufacture. Alba
cete is the Sheffield of Spain. The knife
made there is the national weapon, which
Spaniards know how to use with fatal precis-
ion. The manufacturers there have worked
for many centuries upon-the same pattern, Or
iginally taken from the Moors. They often
scratch rudely in Arabic characters on the
blade without in the least understanding its
meaning, the following motto, with the help
of Allah! hope to kill my enemy '"-Letter
from Madrid.
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