Northern Times. — 1857-08-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CURRAN.  A. word as to the " exhibition" itself. It came off in a Dublin Theatre. There were no  shifting scenes—stage machinery or elaborate plot. The great hero and the sole actor was  SPOLLEN himself. He commences to tell to  about a dozen of men and children his penury and want, and urges that as a reason why he  should outrage the feelings of the citizens by appearing before them as a martyr; but every one present looked upon him as a pardoned murderer. The narrative had not proceeded far when SPOLLEN was interrupted by a Mr. FITZPATRICK, who, in very indignant terms, denounced SI'oLLEN's audacity in appearing as he then did, and seeking to obtain funds from the people of Dublin, when it was a well-known fact that he had as much as would take himself  and his son to America. Mr. FITZPATRICK  was certainly very severe upon SPOLLEN, but his  ‘. Irish blood was up," and he spoke as he felt, and left the exhibition with a promise that he would consult the Lord Mayor as to whether the SPOLLEN nuisance could not be put clown.  After Mr. FITZPATRICK had taken his departure,  but before SPOLLEN Junior gave him an im pertinent badgering, and threatened to send fo"r the police to eject him if he continued his remarks to his father, a number of questions were put to SPOLLEN the Elder touching the murder, but to all these he gave evasive replies, the sum  and substance of which clearly proved that he alone was in the secret of the tragedy.  It is really too bad that the public feeling should be so outraged by the audacious display of a man whose every act, since his liberation from the Dock in Green-street, has been to prove, beyond the possibility of doubt—if any such could have previously existed--that the gallows has lost a full-fledged candidate. Only think of a man accused of such a horrid crime as that of Mr. LITTLE'S murder standing on the boards of a Dublin Theatre and asking his audience— " Suppose I did commit the murder, would you starve me ?" But his conduct with regard to his wife should stamp him in the public estimation, as a dastardly coward, a libeller—aye, and something worse'. In his defence he instructed his counsel, Mr. CURRAN, to insinuate that the prosecution was the result of his wife's infidelity, and her connexion with a paramour.  The learned advocate, in his zeal for an acquittal, had recourse to the expedient of blackening the poor unfortunate woman's character when defence was impossible. SPOLLEN follows up the same idea the moment he is acquitted, and in his never-to-be-forgotten address to the court and jury, he designates the partner of his life " a female tigress." This was done for the purpose of making an impression as to the probability of his innocence. His subsequent conduct belies the imputation, for we find him no sooner clear of the precincts of the Courthouse, than he sends a message to his wife, seeks reconciliation, and asks that the past may be forgotten, and that they should live happy for the future. Gracious GoD ! was there ever such inconsistency of conduct ? Was there ever a course of procedure which so clearly, emphatically called to mind,:and applied to the utterer of such gross calumnies, the words of the Prophet :—" And NATHAN - said unto DAVID, thou art the man." In corroboration of this view, it will be observed that when questioned at the Theatre on Tuesday, he abstained from repeating his accusations against his wife, and was Jesuitical in his replies as to how she knew where the money was hidden, as if he had been brought up at the College of Rheims. The whole affair of the. " personal narrative" was a disgusting exhibition—an attempt to extort money from the public, to one who has forfeited all confidence or claim whatever. We are glad to see that the affair has been a failure, and that our brethren of the Irish Press have denounced the scheme, as it richly merits. We take the following as a specimen of the indignation with which SPOLLEN'S stage exhibition is viewed. Our cotemporary, the Cork Reporter, says : " Seriously we think it would be well that he should be sent out of the country, as he is willing to leave it; for here he cannot obtain an honest livelihood, and it is no economy to make such a man desperate. Public morals require