14 FEBRUARY 1852, Page 2

The ruffiaulanatie who wounded the Queen of Spain, has been

handed, stripped of his clerical character, to the arm of the penal law, and has been put to death. What may have been his motive —whether it was a speculative eye to favour which might be snatched from Fate at the hands of a Regent or a Ifontpensier party, a fanatic hatred of a Sovereign whose court had once some difference with the Pope, or the simple love of bloodstained mis- chief natural to some minds when brutalized—does not yet come out. The event has passed away, as he has done. The Queen is recovering, and may be no worse for the attack. Its most lasting effect probably will be to invest her with a new interest in the eyes of her people.