New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-03

Inc machine Is about tive feet long, two ieet
wide, and three high, and can be operated almost
AZ easy as the turning Of a common grindstone-
The blank intended to be made a file is placed in 4
central position the chises strike both sides Of the
blank AZ the same time. making. IN common speed
two and three hundred cuts per minute. The gear
ing Is 50 adjusted thar the chisels accommodate
themselves % the thickness OF The ie 81 that the
cut is equal 10 depth throughout and the regular
progression Of the file insures perfect regularity in
the distance Of the cuts Aten.inch file Of medium
iineuess is cot on both sides Ia three minutes 10
three minutes more the traverse cuts are made
and It is ain passed through TO cgt the sides
This must prove an invention Of great utility
Nearly all our files are imported. and made in
England by handlabor-of course. with much more
expense than if turned out ready for use BY some
contrysnce similar 70 this Of Mr. Walker. TIE
general use Of machinery for this and kindred p0r
poses would prove both source Of lucrative trade
for the manufacturer and convenience for the
srtsar-necessariy essening the cost Of one Of the
chief Implements Of labor. Experience, too, may
prove that his invocation il applicable to many other
uses.
4 Pr0possd Ner CsiHage 10 Great Britain 1t
is said by English journals that there has been pre-
scented 70 the Mint model Of a new five shilling
piece-in size not larger than the new penny
piece bat instead Of silver and brass the center is
10 be composed Of gold and the outer belt Of silver
An Idea Of ne Dimensions 0f IOrd ROSES Itcs-
cops.-The Hanciesfer Eromiaer tells this. The
Dean cf Ely has walked with an umbrella up
through the tube OF Lord Roses leyisthan teles-
cope
SnrDlns M7ney IN 81 PsfersJrrg The Journal
Of 81 Pefersburg Of October. announces that there
was again found to be a large sum in ingois and
specie TO the credit Of the Empire. There was IA
ken fr,n it on the 9th October the sum Of g., 66s
rubesaO kopees which was placed with all the
requisite formalIties in the presence Of Prince Pc
ter q Ddenburg and several other high functional
ries III the vaults Of the fortress Of ST Peter and
81 Pau. The treasure which is now laid in this
fortress amounts to 1864 9J9 rubles- a rube
eqpalog = cts
A steamer arrived in England three months
since with upward Of - 100000 in gold from st.
Petersburg.
A BOOK os TIE SoANDISAyIlSs.-ln a late
Manchester paper We find an able and extended
review Of work ust issued from the press OF
Bobn. London entitled "Mallets Northern Anti
quities; or an Historical Account Of the Ancient
scandinayians-New Edition; with Translation
of the Prose Edia, from the original Morse tex"
We gather that NJ. MAllet was an ingenious
French gentleman who hourshed about the mid
die Of last century. He had, it is stated, share
in the education Of Christian VII King Of Den
mark. and was afterward ordered by Frederick v
of the same dynasty 10 write History OF Den
mark Whether he ever finished his task Is not
known but two predatory volumes he dld execute
and these are they: " Northern Antiquities In
this work there is a chapter the Colonization OF
Greenland and the Discovery OF the American Con
tnept by the Scandinavisns and that, too. long
before the era of Christopher Columbus. There -
another, on the Laws and Institutions OF Iceland
and on the Manners and Customs OF the Ice
lapders very curious TO read.-I ndeT the title Of
" lcelandic Literature there is, among other
things toleraby fall acco ant Of the elder Edda.-
Finally ia readable English, OF the Prose or young
er Edda itself old Snorro Sturlesons Edda-de-
cidedy the most interesting feature OF the volume
and on which we must say a lew words, remarks
the paper from which we copy.
Edda SnOrrO SsurlesOn what ia that VIII o
is he readers may naturally ask. The Edd0 We
reply is the BIBLE, as It were Of the ancient scan
dinavian pagans was put together IN lcelshd-the
Elder poetic part of 1t, in the 18Th century, by
S,emund, an early Christian prest-irom tradition
and oral repetition extGnt and practiced there and
then. The younger, or prose Edda, was compiled
chiefly from the Poetic one century later BY Snoro
SurlesOn an lcelandlc gentleman as he has
been called. and early Literary man OF those
frozen regions. Snorro was brought up by grand
con of Spmund, and thus " imbibed, asthe Biogra-
phica Dictionaries say, "a love OF letters from ms
earliest Youth He was aturbuleut restless Eel
low all his life fighting with varying success Tor
supremacy over mis- brother lcesnders. But what
is strange he Kept singing aud writing al the while
writing various pieces. as has been truly said "i1ll
of unconscious genius" lie is well remembered
in Iceland 10 his day az ReIkhOt where be lived
aud was finally assassinated, they show you 70 this
dav the Notifications within which he had hemI1ed
himself against bis enemies still more curious
they show you the bath he had built Tor family use
" fifteen feet in diameter, and constructed OF hewn
stones closely fitted, the benefits OF washing
though no COmbe as yet had written not beng IN
known TO Snorro ancient fighting lcelsnder as he
was
One of Snorro's books-the H,imskuEg la-was
published in English a few years ago by Mr..
LANG the traveller IN Sweden. The chief interest
of IL arose from the details II gave OF distant ex
peditions of Mortimer chleis-a considerable IN
erest for they let these iOundins dy nasties
and aristocraces throughout the length and breadth
Of Europe But greatly the most important OF all
Shorros works Is this Prose or Younger Eddd
compiled from the elder one, OF which iast there
are metrcal snstches here and there introduced
In IT,
Regarding the old mythology Of the scandlns
Wan race by direct translation, as this Is, from
the original Morse text the general reader u
brought face TO face with that old mythology, and
sees If dimly. what sort OF belief his ScsndinA
Wan foreiathers held in earliest centuries with re-
gard to the origin Of the Universe and their own
duties therein go
According 10 their butterflies. fabulous King OF
Observation-Disclosures out for "Asgard.' the resi-
dence of the gods, 10 satisfy his curiosity with
respect 10 things in general" and beholds three
thrones with three lordly human forms upon the M
TO whom. with little more ado, he proPounds his
questions, receiving now rebuke, now silence, bat
Tor the most part instructive answers
The headings of the several chapters OF this trans
Istion show the drift of the whole. There IS hfsi
" Ofthe Supreme Deity Then comes cosmogonic
chapters: .Of the Primordisl State OF the Un.
verse: "Ofthe Formation Of the First Man and
Woman. L" OF the Ash Ygdrasil, Miners Wen
and the Norns or Destinies, and SO forth. Then
biographies and Characteristics OF the gods Thor
Bladder and the rest-especially Thor And hnaliy
the remarkable chapters "Of Rugusrok or the
Twilight ofthe Gods and the Conhagratlon OF the
Universe %: d" OF the Abodes OF Future Bliss ana
Misery %: and " Oithe Renovation OF the inverse
Really these matters, even IN stout Old >norros
artess treatise will, 10 use the mdest phrase repay
attention What religious faith mot 10 speak Of
other inuaries dwelt Ia those old osrbarisns, who
issuing from the frozen loins OF the North, have
made themselves that which we see 10 surely an
Interesting object of study. The mythologies Of
Greece and ROme-the genius and histories OF the
Creeks and Romans have been conned and re
: --.4 c. csnfn-tax til almost the yery mention