SALZBURG, the capital of the crovrnland of Salzburg iu Austria, is situated in 47' 49' 10' N. 1st., 13' 1' 32'F long., on the banks of the Salta or Salsach, over which there is a bridge 370 feet long and 40 feet. wide. The situation is one of the moss picturesque in Germany. The city is surrounded with en amphitheatre of lofty mountains, which form a noble background to the view. The river runs between two isolated mountains of breccia, the 318nchsberg ou the left and the Capnelnerberg on the right, leaving in many places only a narrow space on the banks, on which the city is built. The streets are narrow and crooked, and the squares small, but regular. The houses are built of red marble from the neighbouring quarries, with flat roofs. The archbishops adorned the city with so many splendid buildings, chiefly in the Italian style, that Salzburg was called Little Rome. It is surrounded with walls and bastions, and has eight gates, one of which, called the now gate, is a tunnel cut through the Mitnehsberg, 415 feet long, 39 feet high, and 22 feet broad. Salzburg gives title to an archbishop since wax 798. The university, founded in 1620, was abolished in 1800, and a lyceum or academy established in its stead, which has a library of 88,000 volumes, 20 professors, and 310 pupils (in 1850), a botanical garden, and a geological museum. The monas tery of St Peter has a library of 40,000 volumes. The city has a theatre, four hospitals, a lunatio asylum, and many other charitable and useful public institutions. The cathedral is built (1614.68) in the Roman style, with a façade of white marble. It is a building of great architectural merit, adorned with many statues of white marble, and good paintings. St. Peter's church contains the tombs of Haydn and St. Rupert. In the cemetery at the back of this church is shown the original cell occupied by St. Rupert, who introduced Christianity into this part of Europe : he died A.D. 623. The cell is now inclosed In the chapel of St...Egidius. The university church, built in 1696-1707, is in a mixed Greek and Roman style. St. Mar
garet's, a handsome edifice, was built in 1495. The Benodictine church has some beautiful painted-glass windows executed in 1480. The palace called the Winter Residence is a very extensive building ornamented with columns : it is now used for public offices. The square in front of it is adorned with the finest fountain in Germany, 45 feet high, made entirely of white marble. On the opposite side of the square is a magnificent palace called the Neuban, now belonging to the emperor. The town-house and the palace of Count Kerenburg are also splendid buildings. The stables for 130 horsee arc accounted the handsomest in Europe. A stream called the Alberbach flows through them ; the racks are of white marble. Two fine riding schools, one for the summer, and one for the winter, are attached to the stables. There are many other buildings that deserve notice, for instance some of the 26 churches, the palace of Mirabell, and the church of St.. Sebastian, both rebuilt since the fire of ISIS, which destroyed part of the city. In the churchyard of St. Sebastian is the grave of who died here A.D. 1541. A bronze statue of Mozart (a native of Salsburg) by Sehwanthaler is erected in the centre of the Michaels-Plata Salzburg is rich in Roman antiquities, includiug baths and fine mosaics. The fortress of Hohensalza, commanding the town, from which there is a most interesting prospect, is now used as a barrack. There are in the town one military and three civil hospitals, an hospital for incurable patients,' several schools, and many other useful and charitable institutions. The inhabitants, about 13,000 in number, manufacture calicoes, leather, and hardware. Two large fairs are held annually in the town, which has an important transit trade between the eastern Austrian provinces and Bavaria, and between Bavaria and Italy. The environs of Salzburg embrace a great variety of grand and picturesque scenery.