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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 303, 2 June 1875, Page 3

The large Bum of £3,413,712 was received as legacy and succession duty in Great Britain in the year ended March 31st last, being an increase of £236,002 on the year 1873. The great picture that the Paris world is expecting from Qustave Dore at the forthcoming salon, the subject of which has been made somewhat of a mystery, represents a scene in " L'lnferno." It is a work that has been in the artist's studio for many years, but is only now finished. M. Dore has also finished his characteristic illustrations of the Crusades, and the work will be shortly published in Paris. After the conclusion of the recent interview which took place between the Viceroy of India and the Maharajah of Travancore, an incident occurred, says the Pall Mall Gazette, of an amusing, though at the same time to some of those concerned of an embarrassing kind. When the amicable meeting was over, a kind of extempore demonstration was got up in honour of the Maharajah as he passed through Jubbulpore. A company of the Madras Native Infantry, a native band, the Deputy-Commissioner, and several officers assembled at the station to receive the Prince. After they had been waiting for some time they were startled by the approach of a "Ticca gharry," which drove up with some bustle, escorted by the sowars who were appointed to attend the Maharajah. Of cour-e, no one doubted that the occupant was that august personage himself. The Homeward Mail thus describes the scene which then occurred : " The band struck up, the sepoys shouldered their muskets, and out came a consequentiallooking personage in a long toga, with a smoking-cap, slipshod, without socks, who was received with all honour by the officials." Presently the Rajah, for whom all this carefully prepared ceremonial was destined, appeared on the scene, entirely unattended and unnoticed. The consequen-tial-looking personage in the long toga turned out to be only the secretary, whom the sowars mistook for his mastar.