30 JULY 1892, Page 3

Mr. W. L. Jackson, the Irish Secretary, who improved his

majority from 619 in 1886 to 1,014 in 1892, met a number of his supporters on Wednesday in the Leeds Town Hall, and remarked to them on the wonderfully close calculation of his poll which was reported to him on the night before it took place. It came, he said, within 40 of the actual result, and that is an approximation which, when it deals with a poll of no -fewer than 5,790 votes, may be regarded as wonderfully accurate. Evidently these Leeds voters keep the promises which they give, and that cannot be asserted of at least half the -constituencies in the Kingdom.