16 DECEMBER 1966, Page 7

E be %pectator

December 15, 1866

A very old paper is apparently about to dis- appear, the Evening Mail, a tri-weekly edition of the Times, established in 1790. The proprie- tors of this paper, Mr. G. Platt and Mr. W. Platt, are not identical with those of the Times, and Mr. Walter, in 1861, gave them notice, under the special powers reserved to him by his father's will, that they could not use the Times' matter or type any longer. They pleaded the unbroken custom of seventy-seven years, but the Vice- Chancellor decided that such custom to be valid must be based upon some contract, and as there was no such contract, the partnership existing between the Times and the Evening Mail must be dissolved and the paper sold.