The position at present assumed by Austria seems to give no little uneasiness to the western powers, if the journals of Paris and London afford a true index of the feeling entertained by the governments of France and England. In a late number of the London Daily News we find the following important admissions:

"To the careful watcher, symptoms begin to be apparent that Austria is found to be in the way in the solution of the eastern question. We need not remind our readers that, in our view, Austria has been terribly in the way, from first to last, of our great enterprise, and our opinion is well known, that, to prevent Austria from being in the way, the easiest and shortest method would have been to go about our proper business in the most direct and peremptory manner, certain that she would thus, and thus only, be induced or compelled to submit herself to some distinct course of proceeding. But the dynasties wanted Austria to help them to settle the war on dynastic principles, and they secured her countenance for their proceedings. Now, however, a new feature in the case seems to be in course of disclosure. It may be gathered from various indications, that both diplomatists and generals, English and French, are becoming uneasy and disheartened at the decline of their influence and the growth of that of Austria at Constantinople. We do not see how any one can wonder at this. In a case where every body promises and no body achieves, the party which promises most will be the preferred one. If the French and English had beaten the Russians at the beginning of summer, the Sultan would not have been tempted to turn from them to listen to the wily old Metternich and the martial young Francis. Our conduct has been a direct invitation to Austria to bid for the confidence of the Porte; and we have no right to complain if the Porte closes with the offer. The immediate importance of Austria to Turkey is made obvious by the merest glance at the map; and we are not entitled to wonder at the Sultan and his ministers for any degree of stupid trust in Austria, after our own weakness of the same sort. If this be the state of affairs—if Austria be either interposing in the principalities for the benefit of the Czar or supplanting us at Constantinople for her own benefit, or that of despots in general—in either of those cases, or in any other, our duty and policy are clear to strike a blow in the Baltic."

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"If ye love me, keep my commandments."—Jesus.

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