TRIESTE, at the north-eastern extremity of the Adriatic, has been long a free port, and is the most important and wealthy commercial city in the Austrian dominions. Consuls of almost every nation in Europe reside there. The commerce of Trieste was much increased by the commercial treaty concluded with Greece in 1835, and by the new institution of the Austrian Lloyd's, which is supported by the government. The number of ships engaged in the commerce of Trieste is about 2400, of which, in 1849, 403 were employed on long voyages, and 27 were steamers. The steamers ply to Venice, Greece, Constantinople, Tiebizond, and Egypt. A terminus for the Vienna-Trieste Railway, which is now opened nearly throughout, has been lately finished. Among the manufactures, oil soap, leather, rosoglio, and wax, are the principal. Among the exports are the productions of the mines of Idria, those of Hungary, linens, tobacco, and woollens from different parts of the Austrian dominions, and printed calicoes from Switzerland. The imports are cotton from
Egypt; hides, raisins, silks, rice, and oil from the Levant; wheat from Odessa ; and all kinds of tropical and colonial produce from the West and East Indies and Brazil. Ship building, including the construction of frigates and men-of-war, is carried on to a great extent. TRIFO‘RIUM is a term applied to the upper galleries formed by small open arches above those dividing the nave from the side aisles of a church, and beneath the clere story windows this intermediate tier being within the sloping roof over the aisles. In general the triforium is very shallow or narrow, and the arches in front of it small and low; but there are great differences in these respects even in buildings of the same period and style.