Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-19

EUROPEAN CROWNS AND DEMOCRATIC SECU-
RfTIEs--A HINT To QUEEN VICroRIA.-The
crowned heads and coronets of Europe saws
the New York Herald, are doing an active
| business in the way of investments in this
country; and all alike from the monarch
whose throne has stood unscathed for n thou
sand years, to him who is the heir of his un-
Gle of yesterday are placing large sums in
safety on freedoms side of the Atlantic
| Whether this arises from greater confidence
in the stability of free institutions, or because
a better interest is obtained here, where eve.
rybody tries to employ to advantage more
capital than lac possesses, or whether it is the
! simple act of a wise foresight, matters little
| and We do not care to inquire. Suffice it
that the fact is 50. Kings and princes are
sending large sums here; and this fact may
have no small share in producing the pletho-
ra OF money seeking employment, now to be
observed among us
| One OF the leading operators in this way is
Christina, dowager Queen of Spain. She is
one of the richest individuals in Europe, and
probably the greatest business woman in the
world. Her operations are not confined to
any one country, or any single class of secu-
rites. She dabbles in everything. Driven
from Spain, she has her fist in every specula-
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tracted with the Pope to build the RAILWAYS
of the Papal States Her investments in the
French railways have been large she has
bought Malmaison, the former residence of
Josephine, and now owns the Courier de
! Paris newspaper. She has been one Of the
most successful operators in the Cuban slave
trade, and has innumerable projects in Cuba
among which are the Havana gas works.
several tihe sugar estates, and many tracts of
tne lands. At one time when she was para
mount in Spain, it is said she offered to lend
her influence to the sale of Cuba to us, pro
vided we would give her the land the walls of
| Havana stand on. She has two or three
agents in this country-one being in Phila-
delphia one in New Orleans and another
without fixed location. Each of these is
supposed to control investments to the amount
of one or two millions of dollars, scattered in
real estate, railway securities and State
stocks.
| Louis Philippe was well known to have
large possessions in this country, and the last
visit of the Prince de Joinvile was prnci-
pally to look after them, and to see if they
promised well in the future The heirs of
the house of Orleans have retained these and
are continually adding to them. Louis Ma
poleon has followed the example of Louis
Philippe, and has several active and shrewd
agents in this country looking out for good
investments, in which the savings of the Pa
risan improvements and the pi kings of the
empire may be made at once safe and to pay
"A good rate of interest. There is no doubt
that he has sent here from three to five mil
lions of dollars in this way, and that he looks
upon them as being much safer than the scep-
tire he plays with.
But the greatest operators in safe invest
ments here are the petty princes of Germa-
ny. The German houses through whom they
operate have become marked feature in our
money market, and they control some of the
most prominent of our railroad securities 1t
is estimated that the sums invested in this
way among us by dukes, counts, barons and
timid capitalists of Germany amount to fully
fifty millions of dollars One of the most
curious features in this system is the fact that
| European capitalists control some of our lea
| ding railroads, and these railroads control the
political affairs of several of our most prospe-
rous States. In this way the Duke of Baden
! Baden has more influence in New York poll
tics then he has in those of Germany, and a
bigger share in the per centage of the Albany
clques than in the gambling banks of his
own duchy.
Now, in view of this prosperous state of
things, and of the fact that Queen Victoria
will neither come over to see us, nor lend
baby to open the Canadian exhibition, we
suggest to her whether it would be well TO
invest few millions in democratic securities
Crowns are slippery things, and she has
large family to provide for. Suppose then,
she puts in for some safe American invest
ments. Every one of her English lords has
his pocket full of them, and finds them to be
after all, the safest and best paying invest.
ments We would advise her to buy out one
of the leading New York railroads, and send
her proxy to sit with Corning and our other
railroad men in high conclave upon New
York politics They now rule the State, and
some of her kingly cousins are represented
there.