Mr.Webster replied, through Mr.Hunter, with extreme coolness, confining himself to an approval of the gentleman selected by Mr.
Huelsemann to represent Austria after the latter's departure.
The other affairs which occupied Mr.Webster's official attention at this time made less noise than that with Austria, but they were more complicated and some of them far more perilous to the peace of the country.

The most important was that growing out of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty in regard to the neutrality of the contemplated canal in Nicaragua.

This led to a prolonged correspondence about the protectorate of Great Britain in Nicaragua, and to a withdrawal of her claim to exact port-charges.

It is interesting to observe the influence which Mr.Webster at once obtained with Sir Henry Bulwer and the respect in which he was held by that experienced diplomatist.

Besides this discussion with England, there was a sharp dispute with Mexico about the right of way over the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and the troubles on the Texan boundary before Congress had acted upon the subject.