The progress of the Emperor of Austria through his Italian
dominions has been abruptly broken off. Before his journey's end wds'attained, the monarch suddenly wheeled round and returned with pl•Waaste to 'Vienna. The excursion was indeed an uncora- fortaWonis.: the Imperial reception in all the cities visited was of the coldest, and bad weather interrupted the military reviews and spoiled the show.
While the Emperor was thus unexpectedly falling back upon his capital, troops began to be moved from it.towards the Turkish frontier. Abant ten thousand men are- on their march towards. Croatia. The Government agents= attribute the movement to dis- affection there but the soldiers sent are principally Croats, and it isnot the jpelicy of Austria to employ natives of any province to suppress disturbances in it. These military preparations are elwiously connected with the Austrian demand on the Porte for compensation to Austrian subjects on account of injuries done to them during the Bosnian insurrection ; and the sudden urging of this demand, in such peremptory fashion, naturally leads people to associate it with the threatening note which the Austrian Cabinet transmitted to-Constantinople-on the liberation- of the Hungarian exiles. If a compliant answer be returned by the Porte to the claim for compensation, it will remove the pretext for aggression ; and indeed a war. The attempt to Austria seems in no condition to commence , raise a new loan is admitted to have failed, and the increasing depreciation of Government paper is paralyzing every branch of trade.
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