PANORAMA OF SALZBURG.
Mr. Burford has prepared for the Easter holydays by opening a now panoramic scene, having on the present occasion sought the Austrian ter- ritories for his subject : and a splendid subject is the city and plain of Salzburg, combining the grand and the beautiful in the highest degree. The city itself is more imposing and remarkable than strictly picturesque, though possessing many of the elements of picturesqueness; antiquity diversified here and there by modernness, a cathedral, a Lombard Gothic church, and the massive timeworn castle which dominates all other edi- fices. But the immense plain in which it is situated is full of surpassing loveliness,—almost paradisal to the North-west, where the Salzach river meanders with a profusion of interminable windings; with which the magnificent Alpine ranges that enclose it on the other three sides form a glorious contrast of abrupt harmony. Mr. Burford's skill is so well known, that it is scarcely necessary to add that he has done justice on his own extraordinary scale of size to this vast spectacle.
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