As the horse speeds on its way, Kansa assembles his demon councillors, explains the situation to them and asks for their advice.

He had himself removed to Vincennes, called his councillors about him, and gave them his last royal instructions.

"Each arrondissement will elect a councillor for each twenty thousand of inhabitants, and an extra one for a surplus of more than ten thousand.

"It is not states of finance we want," exclaimed a councillor, Sabatier de Cabre, "it is States-general."

" "It is a pity so faithful a councillor as yourself should not be listened to," rejoined De Gondomar.

The first president received 4 livres, 22 solis parisisabout 140 francsper day; a clerical councillor 25 sols parisisabout 40 francsand a lay councillor 20 solsabout 32 francs.

The villagers helped himeven the councillors who had hoped for the storm, they helped.

There were noble, clerical, and lay councillors, honorary members, and maîtres de requête, only four of whom sat; a first president, who was supreme head of the Parliament, a master of the great chamber of pleas, and three presidents of the chamber, all of whom were nominated for life.

In 1775, he went to Weimar, on an invitation from the Grand Duke, and remained there till the end of his life, loaded with all the honours a German sovereign could bestow, ennobled, a privy councillor, and for many years of his life prime minister; "a treatment of genius hitherto unknown in the annals of literature, or of Mecaenaship; and a splendid exception to the indifference with which rulers generally regard intellectual excellence.

"Yolanda"I began, but corrected myself"Your Highness needs no councillor.

The Rabbis felt that Mahomet and his warrior heroesAli, Omar, Othman, and the restwould in time dislodge from their high places their own peculiar saints, just as they saw Mahomet with Abu Bekr and his personnel of administrators and informers already overriding their own councillors in the civil and military departments of their state.

It possessed, indeed, one private-spirited town-councillor, who insisted on presenting it with nude sculptures and mysterious paintings which it furiously declined.

Dionysius, that Sicilian tyrant, rejected all his privy councillors, and was so besotted on Mirrha his favourite and mistress, that he would bestow no office, or in the most weightiest business of the kingdom do aught without her especial advice, prefer, depose, send, entertain no man, though worthy and well deserving, but by her consent; and he again whom she commended, howsoever unfit, unworthy, was as highly approved.

It may be noted that the Hanoverian officials, fond as all Germans were and are of wordy distinctions, styled themselves "Koenigliche-Gross-britannische-Kurfuerstlich-Braunschweig-Lueneburgische" (Royal-British-Electoral-Brunswick-Luenburg) councillors or magistrates.

For the Session, if so it might be called, of 1863-4, he was to summon his councillors to meet him somewhere in the north-west, at some capital city, 'not a purely military station, but where the Council might obtain some knowledge of local and native feeling such as did not reach Calcutta.'

"The Elector of Saxony, in consideration of services rendered to the town of Leipsic, appoints me his commercial privy councillor!" cried he, waving the paper in the air; "that is a good joke!

What say you to that, my brother?" "The king, our nephew, is young," answered the Duke of Berry: "if he trusts the new councillors he is taking, he will be deceived, and it will end ill, as you will see.