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Article XVI. The dwellings, manufactories, warehouses, and shops of the subjects of each of the Contracting Parties in the dominions and possessions of the other, and all premises appertaining thereto destined for purposes of residence or commerce, shall be respected. It shall not be allowable to proceed to make a search of, or a domiciliary visit to, such dwellings and premises, or to examine or inspect books, papers, or accounts, except under the conditions and with the forms prescribed by the laws for subjects of the country. The subjects of each of the two Contracting Parties in the dominions and possessions of the other shall have free access to the Courts of justice for the prosecution and defence of their rights, without other conditions, restrictions, or taxes beyond those imposed on native subjects, and shall, like them, be at liberty to employ, in all causes, their advocates, attorneys, or agents from among the persons admitted to the exercise of those professions according to the laws of the country. Abticle XVII. The subjects of each of the Contracting Parties shall have, in the dominions and possessions of the other, the same rights as native subjects in regard to patents for inventions, trade-marks, and designs, upon fulfilment of the formalities prescribed by law. Article XVIII. The Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents of each of the Contracting Parties residing in the dominions and possessions of the other shall receive from the local authorities such assistance as can by law be given to them for the recovery of deserters from the vessels of their respective countries. Aeticle XIX. The stipulations of the present Treaty shall be applicable to all the colonies and foreign possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, excepting to those hereinafter named, that is to say, except to—lndia, the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Cape, Natal, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, New Zealand. Provided always that the stipulations of the present Treaty shall be made applicable to any of the above-named colonies or foreign possessions on whose behalf notice to that effect shall ha c been given by Her Britannic Majesty's Eepresentative at the Court of Italy to the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs within one year from the date of the exchange of the ratification of the present Treaty. Aeticle XX. The present Treaty shall come into force on the Ist July, 1883, and shall remain in force until the Ist February, 1892, and thereafter until the expiration of a year from the day in which one or other of the Contracting Parties shall have repudiated it. Each of the Contracting Parties reserves, however, the right of causing it to terminate on the Ist January, 1888, upon six months' notice being given previously. Aeticle XXI. The present Treaty shall be ratified by the two Contracting Parties, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Eome as soon as possible. In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries of the Contracting Parties have signed the present Treaty in duplicate, in the English and Italian languages, and thereto affixed their respective seals. Done at Eome, this fifteenth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eightythree, (1.5.) A. B. Paqbt. (1.5.) P. S. Mancini.

Pbotocol. At the moment of proceeding this day to the signature of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Italy, the Plenipotentiaries of the two High Contracting Parties have declared as follows : Any controversies which may arise respecting the interpretation or the execution of the present Treaty, or the consequences of any violation thereof, shall be submitted, when the means of settling them directly by amicable agreement are exhausted, to the decision of Commissions of Arbitration, and that the result of such arbitration shall be binding upon both Governments. The members of such Commissions shall be selected by the two Governments by common consent, failing which each of the Parties shall nominate an arbitrator or an equal number of arbitrators, and the arbitrators thus appointed shall select an umpire. The procedure of the arbitration shall in each case be determined by the Contracting Parties, failing which the Commission of Arbitration shall be itself entitled to determine it beforehand. The undersigned Plenipotentiaries have agreed that this Protocol shall be submitted to the two High Contracting Parties at the same time as the Treaty, and that when the Treaty is ratified the agreements contained in the Protocol shall also equally be considered as approved, without the necessity of a further formal ratification. In faith whereof the two Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Protocol and thereto affixed their respective seals. Done, at Eome, this fifteenth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eightythree, (1.5.) A. B. Pagst. (1.5.) Mancini.