The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-26

| Queen Christina OF Spain ~ q Einarcier aud
specuiaror-Women's Rights Amply Vlndi-
Gated.
Among the mass Of the European news which
we published yesterday, was the following pa
ragraph, which, as q very interesting and re-
markabe ecrap of intelligence in these days Of
stockjobhing, railroad specializing, and swind-
ling on large scale, we consider worthy Of a
bodily introduction into our editorial cJi mns.
| Here it is:---
INDICTMENT AGAINST QUEEN CHRISTINA.
[Trom the Madrid Tribune Aug Al
Dopa Maria Christina dc Bourbon is debtor to tho
State twenty four millions which she received unla ~fuy
as Reina Gobernadora, from 1884 TO $780, having
ried second time shortly AT er the death Of her
husbar d-ts.lye millions which paid to her her
from for the three years which she passed
out ofthe country and iry Evs nations, he difference
hat she has drurn her pension the treasury Of CG;
makng total q sennsy one millions Of RAILS With the
sweat of the people the Risnzayes family Yassi their pa
of the Gale de las eas founded estates at Il
con- acquired the coal mines OF Iangreo made its
canalzstoD OF tho Ebro; took great number in the
Company CT In Espana Industrial 10 joint stock
the participation various lines of railroad anu esab
| ished at havana engines and other speculations.
This short but comprehensive extract en-
braces world Of information concerning the
| notorious, prosecuted, and prosecuted Queen
Mother ofSpain. 1t presents her in new cha
ractcr, which cannot fail at once of exciting the
| wonder, the admiration, and the envy Of all
Wall street. Down to the arrival of the Asia,
which brought us this curious expedition from
L the Madrid Tribune, we had been accustomed
| to consider Dona Maria Christina de Bourbon
| as not whit better than she should be in her
| moral department, as utterly INSCRIPTIONS, and
| as rapacious az pirate in her greediness
for money, aud as having realized the bulk of
her vast possessions from her commissions, de-
rived, per capita, from the African slave trade
with the island of Cuba, in spite of laws, trea-
ties and public opinion. And this schedule of
her character as member OF the royal family,
as an independent female, and as o woman Of
business, We he'd supposed was quite sufficient
to employ all the time, energy, talents and in.
dustry, even of bona Maria Christina de Bour
bon, OF the degenerate Court of Spain.
But the darker shades of the picture Of this
most extraordinary Queen Mother are ut length
relieved by the striking contrasts Of the most
brilliant lights and coloring. She stands before
u . heroine, even Of this age of progress and
0nanciering. And considering the dcplorable
laziness, the social marasmus and general im-
becility into which the once powerful and en-
terprising kingdom and people Of Spain have
fallen in these latter days, the "go ahead"
business activity Of this dashing Spa woman
is perfectly surprising The fastest oung men
of the day, even Of /" Young America" must
yield the inside track to Dona Maria Christina
de Bourbon.
Hudson, the English railway King, has been
giant in his vast and numerous speculative
operations the Pacific Railroad Company in
their subscriptions Of stock for Jable track
over a line Of two thousand miles of deserts and
volcanic mountains, have startled rs not little
with the amplitude Of their financial arrange
ments; the tripartite speculation Of twenty mil
lions, Though reduced TO ten millions between
Gen. Santa Anna, Con. Gadsden, and Gen
Pierce, Tor railroad along Cookies desert wagon
route, was q magnificent thing The financial
railway transactions OF Robert Schuyler and of
the Vermont Central corporation, we're rather
above the average OF ordinary enterprises e that
kind, and have created o tremendous sensation
from Wall street to the new ferry over The
Kansas river; but royal Castilian, Of the fe-
male line, in the extent and In the variety Of
her monetary and political operations, in dlplo-
macy and war, and in State stocks and the fan
cies, transceuds them all put together. Hnd
son, Santa Anna, Pierce. Gadsden & Co.,
the overland desert Pacific company, the
Vermont Central and Robert Schuyler, all
together, arc eclipsed by Dona Maria Christina
de Bourbon. We may throw in the Parker |
Vein Company, the entire lobby force OF Colts |
patent extension, and the bombardment Of
Greytown, and Queen Christina can Ego them
q hundred better" aud win.
There is the Indictment against her. Look at |
it. She is charged with ex!orting unlawfully
nearly nine millions OF dollars from the people |
of Spain to begin with, leaving out Of the ques-
ton all her various legal pickings and perqui- |
sites, and her alleged private arrangements with
the Cuban slave traders. She has built palaces, |
purchased imperial estates, has made large
Investments in coal mining monoponcs; has |
made sort Of Camden and Amboy concern Of |
the Gjon railroad has gone largely into the |
business ofcanal enlargcments on the plan OF the
late Erie Board and their contractors; she owns |
prodigious amount Of stock in great manu- |
featuring monopoly; she is engaged 'in various
lines Of railroad; and has established ct ua-
vana engines and other speculations," probably |
In connection with the manufacture Of sugar and |
scgars. AL these operations arc charged upon
the "Rianzares family; but the Queen Mother |
is undoubtedly the President and the transfer
agcnt-the Robert Schuyler Of the whole con-
Germ.
Our inercdulity In the pretensions Of
women's rights Is shaken. Dona Maria
Christina de Bourbon is living exemplifca-
i0R Of thGiS cssdipA doctrine that the sphere