William Thomas remarked in 1844 that "Infanticide I am persuaded is most awfully on the increase though it cannot be detected—their argument has some reason 'No good pickaninnys now no country'".
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Buckley's transportation and escape as depicted by 19th century Aboriginal artist Tommy McRae Descriptions of the adult Buckley vary. According to John Helder Wedge, who met him in 1835, 'with his long, matted hair, he was a most awfully savage-looking fellow, standing in height without shoes, erect in person, and well proportioned'. When Buckley appeared at their camp, James Gumm out of curiosity measured him as or . Buckley himself records his height as being .
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Despite this, from its proximity to the worsted factory, the intense heat caused the sulphur to ignite, melt and stream in a burning blue flame liquidised state from the windows. The authorities, abandoning the mill, sought to save the warehouse, directing all their efforts on it, and were reinforced by the military with their fire engine. This effort was thwarted by the wide scattering of burning brands from the fallen factory roof, which gave additional stimulation to the burning sulphur. By 3 am, the entire warehouse was one body of flames "most awfully magnificent".
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In 1839, the Union Workhouse of the Poor Law Union of Ballinrobe was founded. Ballinrobe suffered greatly during the Great Famine of 1845 to 1849. With 2,000 inmates at the height of the famine, the workhouse was so overcrowded that on 23 March 1847, The Mayo Constitution reported: > In Ballinrobe the workhouse is in the most awfully deplorable state, > pestilence having attacked paupers, officers, and all. In fact, this > building is one horrible charnel house, the unfortunate paupers being nearly > all the victims of a fearful fever, the dying and the dead, we might say, > huddled together.
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It is most awfully sad to think of it all. A splendid old > family like ours, and Lord Townshend cannot now afford to live at Raynham > Hall in Norfolk, which is let to Sir Edmund Lacon, or at Balls Park, let to > Mr Phillips; and from what I heard from Lord St. Levan the other day, Balls > Park will have to be sold and most of the land at Raynham as well. To think > of it all, and the last century there was no family more powerful than ours. > …I wonder if ever I shall be the means of restoring some of the old prestige > to the family.
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Not too Downton (Abbey – shabby) from Joanna Vanderham as Marian either". He concluded his comparison saying, "Maybe it’s silly to compare, they’re different things, but this is Veuve Clicquot, to Downton’s Babycham". In Radio Times, Ben Dowell found it to be, "as slow and languid as the long hot summer that young Leo spent with his wealthy school friend Denys [sic]". He added, "There was an abiding, oppressive sense of doom, with talk of distant duels in the family’s history and beautiful incidental music that complemented and deepened the sense of tragedy, realised most awfully at the end in Burgess' suicide when the heavens literally opened.
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