27 AUGUST 1853, Page 7

The latest news respecting the decision of the Sultan on

the note of the Four Powers is what was received yesterday by telegraph from Vienna. The most positive form it has assumed is, that the Austrian Government has received intelligence that the Porte has accepted the collective note "with a very trifling verbal modification." This morning, the genre, slight as it is, is moralized with an impatience of criticism hard upon Turkey for not accepting without hesitation or qualification.

There is a rumour that the Federal Council of Switzerland contem- plate an extensive plan of fortification on their Italian frontier. Colonel Bourgeois, M. Ochsenbein, General Dufour, and Colonel Ziegler, were at' Bellinzona on the 18th : M. Ochsenbein is the Swiss Minister at War.