The Royal ordonnance, which summoned the French Chambers for the
20th of August, has been superseded by another convoking them for the 31st of July. The motive for this alteration does not seem to be well understood. On the one hand, it is said that the law leaves the King no choice, as a period of more than three months would elapse between the dissolution of the old and the meeting of the new Chamber, if the former time of assembly was adhered to ; and this, it is said, would be unconstitutional. There- fore the Chambers will meet pro forma, and be adjourned till autumn. It is urged in opposition to this, that the point of law is not clear, and that it is not credible that so great an oversight would have been committed, as the mistake imputed to the King's advisers. It is more probable that the state of Europe renders the speedy convocation of the Chambers necessary. And this view is confirmed by the fact of the approaching nuptials of the brother of the King of NAPLES with Louts Plume's second daughter, and the adhesion of the Neapolitan Monarch to the Quadruple alli- ance, to the great mortification of MErrsaNtca; by the unusual activity at Toulon in fitting out naval armaments, and the despatch of a corvette to the Levant ; and lastly, by the threatening posture
of the Northern despots towards Switzerland. :
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