23 JULY 1892, Page 2

The calculations as to what is called the popular majority

at the General Election are almost all vitiated by leaving the uncontested seats out of the account. The Times of yester- day, however, gave us a calculation which seems to us based on very just, not to say generous, assumptions towards the Gladstonians, which included the uncontested elections taken on a computation as reasonable as it is possible to make. And this was the result :—In England alone, the Unionist popular majority was 121,635. In England and Wales, taken together, it was 69,999, say 70,000. In Great Britain (i.e.,

including Scotland as well as Wales), the Unionist majority was 33,814. In the United Kingdom, with the Irish vote included, the net Home-rule majority was 203,014.