Southern shield., 1851-01-25
From the New Orleans Bulletin. THE AUSTRIAN C0RRESPONDENCE.

w uO uOl kuOW WUen we nave SD uluCt regretted the want of space as on the pre- sent occasion, when we are forced to ac- knowledge our inability to publish entire, the admirable document of the Secretary of State, in reply to a diplomatic note from the Austrian Charge d'Af1airs. The cor respondence was submitted to the Senate on the Both ult., and the reply of Mir. Web ster elicited unqualified and emphatic admi- ration from the whole Senate, without dis tinction of party. MT. Underwood, the Senator from Kentucky, remarked, that since he had been member of the Senate, he had not heard any thing read which had given him so much satisfaction. It warmed his heart, and it ought, in his opinion, to warm the heart of every American, to hear such principles avowed by this government in the face of the world. MT. Cass, as did Mir. Clay, bestowed upon it unqualified praise. MI. Mangum declared that the correspondence contained "principles de- serving of perpetual preservation, national, | American doctrines, openly and manfully avowed in the eyes of the world" Mir. Rusk agreed with Mir. Mangum in his con- mendations of document which contain ed true American principles, expressed in language that should be made universally known. In fact, every prominent Senator took occasion to award it the need of his approval. Mir. Ritchie, of the Union, char acterises the reply of MT. Webster as ad- mirabIe-the principles from which he req sons as being the true spirit of American ] principles. The Secretary'S style, says Mir. Ritchie, is worthy of his subject, at all times clear, and occasionally eloquent. Nil. Webster's fame, elevated and universal as it has been, is yet waxing and maturing with his years. As Sir II. Bulwer, the British Minister, on a late occasion, happi- ly remarked of the gifts of this wonderful man, his eloquence is poetry held in chains by reason-his Statesmanship Philosophy reduced to practice. There is now no pub lie man, considered in the capacity of a philosophc statesman, to whom the Latin maxim is more justly applicable, " Nehil quod tetigit non OrnaUlt."
 But to the matter in point, the cores pondence. There is no complexity in the subject which drew out these official con- munications, but yet the Secretary takes occasion to give interest to it, by historic analysis and phiosophic illustrations, as at tractive in style 10 the cursory reader, as edifying to the experienced ard habitual thinker. MT. Badger, of North Carolina after the reading of the correspondence in the Senate, remarked, that although he I possessed an average amount ot informal ton upon the topics treated upon, yet he acknowledged that he had been instructed and had learned more from this able State paper than he had knew before.
 The essence of the correspondence be- tween the two tunctionaries is simply this
 the Austrian Charge, Mir. Hulsemann, ad- dressed note to Mr. Webster, animadver- ting upon the course of the late admins tration in sending out an agent to Vienna to ascertain the real relations then existing between Hungary and Austria, with view of recognizing, if events proved favorable, the Hungarian Republic. The Austrian's note is written in bruSque and rather an insolent tone. The reply of MT. Webster though moderate and dignified, is, neverthe- less, annihiating. He telIs the puny Aus trian with the club of Hercules. It is a shame to emasculate this noble production, but we cannot hel it. We must either give little or none, and as a specimen of the real :. but truculent manner ill which the sturdy American decaptales his adversary, we give as specimen. few concluding para graphs of his miSsive. They are fair sam- ples of the tone and lenperof the whole:
 |" Mir. HuIseman proceeds to remark that this extremely painful incident, therefore, might have been passed over, without any written evidence being left on our part in the archives of the U. S., had not General Tor thought proper to revive the whole subject, by communicating to the Senate, m his message of the 18th, of last March. the instructions with which Mir. Mann had been furnished on the occasion of his mission to Vienna. The publicity which has been given to that document has placed the lm- perial government under the necessity of entering formal protest, throughits official representative, against the proceedings ot the American. government, lest that govern ment should construe our silence into ap- probation, or toIeraion even, ot the prin- ciples which appear to have guided its ac- tion and the means it has adopted"
 The undersigned reasserts to MT. Hulse- man, and to the cabinet of Vienna, and in the presence of the world, that the steps taken by President Taylor, now protested by the Austrian government, were warrant ed by the law of nations and agreeable to the usaaes of civilized States. With re- spect to the communication of MT. Mann's instructions to the Senate, and the lan- guage in which they are couched, it has already been said, and MT. Hulsemann must feel the justice of the remark, that these are domestic affairs, in reference to