The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-07 00:00:00

LOSS OF A BRAVE TO MVO SAILOR,

Last week we stated in the The Sun that much
sympathy was expressed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
with the loss sustained by Mr. Belt, of the Groat-
market ; his son Anthony, a noble-hearted young
sailor, having perished by the wreck of the Royal
Charter. In the early part of this year; Mr. Belt
lost a son in England by drowning, and the young
man lost in coming home in the Royal Charter had
been sent by his two brothers in Australia to com-
fort their parents under their severe bereavement.
Mr. Belt, the father, has been across at the scene
of the wreck of the Royal Charter, and has ascer-
tained that his son, with 200 other passengers who
were in the- forecastle, perished when the vessel
parted. Young Anthony Belt was no ordinary
person. In the month of July, 1853, he shipped as
third officer on board the ill-fated Bourneuf at Mel-
bourne. The vessel was bound for Bombay, and on
the 2d August in that year, and while attempting
to run into Torres Straits, a strong current came
and carried her cut of her proper course, and she
struck upon a reef. Captain Bebies, with his wife
and several of the crew, put off in the port lifeboat,
but it was dashed to pieces against the side of the
vessel by the fury of the storm, and the whole of
those who took to the boat immediately perished,
with the exception of a seaman, named Booth, a
native of Newcastle. Mr. Anthony Belt, at the
commencement of the voyage, had committed to
his care by the captain a young midshipman, who
received some injuries from the water-cask, which
had broken adrift in consequence of the pitching of
the vessel. The gallant sailor attached his own-life-
belt to the unfortunate youth, carried him on deck,
and placed him in a boat which the crew were in
the act of lowering. Anthony Belt stood by the
vessel till the last. On a general rush being made
to the cutter, he endeavoured to persuade a part to
remain with him and make an attempt to launch
the boat which remained amidships. On the cutter
getting clear, he and the carpenter cut away the
masts to give the vessel the only chance of holding
together until daybreak. About three o'clock in the
morning she broke in two, and as they did not get
the boat amidships launched, they had to remain
exposed to the storm until daylight. Twice did
young Belt plunge into the sea with a line to esta-
blish a communication by means of a lifebuoy be-
tween the wreck and the cutter, which could not
approach within a hundred yards on account of the
sea, and by which he succeeded in saving many
lives. •He also saved the life of a Frenchman who
had been thrown into the sea by the breaking of
the line. For his undaunted courage and heroic con-
duct on that occasion he was afterwards awarded the
gold medal of the Shipwrecked Fishermen's Royal
Benevolent Institution, and the committee of ma-
nagement also passed a resolution couched in terms of
high praise. Those saved from the wreck succeeded
in reaching Raine's Island, and were picked off by
a Dutch East Indiaman and landed at Batavia.
After his return from a voyage to the East Indies,
Mr. Belt was entertained by a large number of
friends at a supper held at the Crown and Thistle
Inn, Newcastle ; and presented by the Mayor, in
the name of Mr. Belt's fellow-townsmen, with a
sextant, telescope, compass, and a set of drawing
instruments.

Is CONSUMPTION INCURA.BLE F —lnvalids labouring
under Consumptive Maladies, and families who have
suffered from the ravages of Consumption (and what
family in the empire is there who has not to deplore a
loss caused by this scourge of the human race ?) will find
a satisfactory answer to the question, " Is Consumption In-
curable," in an original article by Dr. DENIS CRONIN,
M.D., 35, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, W. Published in
the "household Physician," in numbers, one penny each,
by G. Berger, 19, Holywell-street, Strand. From Ito 9 now
ready.

[ADVEILTISEMENT.]—The Fatality of Disease.—Hollo-
way's Pills.—lt is distressing to look around and see the
numbers that aro hourly carried prematurely to their graves
who might easily be saved by medicines suited to their
complaints. In the majority of cases diseases originate in
impure of impoverished blood, Holloway's Pills act on
that vital fluid : they expel from the secretory organs and
the circulation the morbid matter which produces in-
flammation, pain, fever, debility, and physical decay.
When taken according to the printed directions they have
never been known to fail. Under a course of these pills
the sick man soon rises from his bed, and the feeble be-
come robust. The cure is not superficial or temporary, but
complete and permanent.