Dayton Daily Empire

The War Leader of the London Times of May 2d.

(The following highly important article, from the London Times of May 21, was telegraphed to the Commercial on Monday night, entire, from New York, where it was received by the steamship Wood. It is intensely interesting, being the commentary of the leading and most influential journal in Europe, on the momentous news by the steamers arrived Saturday.)

[From the London Times, May 2d.]

Europe has entered into a state of war. Whatever may have been the reluctance in some quarters to believe that this could happen, whatever the inclination to deny or discredit, the full grown truth marches onward; War is gone forth in his annual guise, and is making himself known by his "ordinary demons," in three columns the Austrians have jumped from Austrian territory to that of Sardinia (one of their divisions has penetrated the country from the north landing on the Sardinian shores of the Lago Maggiore, occupying the towns of Laveno, Pallanza and Arona, and driving back the Sardinians by the superiority of their numbers. A second, consisting of 20 battalions and 8 batteries, has taken the road by Gravellona, and the third has found its way by Abbiate Grassa low for the invaders have swooped, or what may be their point of concentrating, cannot be clearly stated from materials before us.

Whether the tete de pont at Buffalora, was despatched and taken by bayonet after a sharp and considerable loss, as was reported at Vienna, or whether there was no resistance made, as would rather appear probable from the silence of the telegram from Turin as to any actual encounter—whether Gen. Marmora resisted or quietly succumbed, whether Novara was occupied without opposition, and Vercelli was reached without a contest, are matters of detail that have no important bearing upon the main purport of to-day's news, The invading army of Austria is in full march upon Sardinian soil. On the other hand the King of Sardinia has put himself at the head of his army and gone to meet his invaders. He has surveyed the line of the Dora, where it is supposed the Sardinians may perhaps make a stand in defense of their capital, and he has gone thence to Alessandria, which must soon be attacked, if the Austrians have a real intention of conquering Piedmont.

The French are swarming into the seat of war. The Austrian papers already declare the neutrality of Savoy has been violated The Imperial Guard, numbering 15,000, have arrived at Genoa, and 40,000 French troops have now gathered in that place of strength. When or where there armed men will meet in conflict in entirely a question of strategy, But so far as any question of peace or war is concerned, the English, the Belgians and French were not more at war on "the plains of Waterloo, than are the French, the Sardinians and Austrians on the plains of Ticino, Sesia and Dora, We wish that our only disquieting intelligence was from the country where war has already burst forth, and where the nations are contending, There might then be some hope that an advance upon Turin, and a battle favorable to the Austrians, might have the effect of reducing the pretensions of the French and Sardinians, or that a decisive advantage over the Austrian forces would induce that Power to come to terms upon the disputed points in her policy in Italy.— This, however, is not so, That Provisional Governments have been established in Florence, Carrara and Massa, in not of itself a matter of great importance That the inhabitants of Rome are in an effervescent, if not insurgent state, is scarcely an addition to the ordinary Italian difficulties, but when we read that Prussia has resolved upon putting her remaining corps d'armee in readiness to march, we see very great cause to fear the peace of Europe is shaken more gravely than would appear from the soft messages from Paris and the bland assurances from St. Petersburg. That Prussia has cause for this precaution we cannot doubt, when we find that a Russian army of observation is about to be stationed upon her frontier, for some object of which Europe only knows that it has been concerted with France, and was concerted in secret. But the most important and least re-assuring of all the intelligence of the last forty-eight hours, is derived from no telegram, but is itself a confirmation from official sources, of that grave intelligence which we were some days since enabled to give, of the existence of a treaty between France and Russia. Mr. Fitzgerald has taken the occasion of his nomination at Horsham, to state publicly that in connection with the question of the supposed alliance between France and Russia, the Government had addressed to the Emperor of Russia a direct categorical inquiry, as to whether such a treaty, containing anything hostile to England, did exist. Prince Gortschakoff's answer was decisive. He said:

"I do not deny that there may exist a written agreement between France and Russia"—we apprehend this quite sufficient to confirm our disquietude on this head. Of course we have, immediately after this important confession, the read but much less important assurance, that this written agreement "does not constitute a hostile alliance against Europe." We could scarcely expect the Russian Minister to admit that a treaty which he keeps shut from the eyes of Europe, contains an agreement for the partition of Europe. It is enough for us to know that not a treaty, but a written agreement exists between France and Russia, which those powers think it for their interest to keep secret from any third power.

Prince Gortschakoff gives his personal assurance that this written agreement does repose, and upon this we are to lay ourselves into security, putting our trust firmly in the frankness of Prince Gortschakoff's "reading of the written agreement and the innocency of this little secret between the two great aggressive Emperors We can place no faith in the Russian view of the character of this perors, by any other name. which armies are put in motion, we should circumstantially deny. An official denial now of an indefeasible enterprise, Py-a Baltimore paper gives the history of the famous Derringer pistol with which col pleaded (for effect to the jury) was probably the property of Key himself, This pistol is stated to have been formerly the property of Isaac V. Fowler, Esq., P. N., of New York, who, on one occasion, while practising in a pistol gallery at Baltimore, accidentally wounded his friend Li F., Butterworth, in the posterior portion of the person, by a premature discharge, Butterworth was some time sick from this awkward wound, and, on his recovery, Mr. Fowler gave him the pistol as a present, This same pistol Butterworth is believed to have lent to Sickles on the fatal Sunday morning Beraum were in the country, he would doubtless secure it for exhibition. Be—The Richmond Ia. Palladium says that a good deal of excitement has been created in Milton, in that county, by reported attacks of mad dogs on hogs, dogs and cattle. One of the children of a Mr. Millbaugh was bitten, and a very general infection of the horrible poison is feared among the brute part of the village. The trustees have authorized the indiscriminate killing of dogs wherever they may be found.