Posted with permission of the transcriber, Barb. Baker. Geo. CARLISLE PATRIOT, Saturday, November 18, 1843 / NEWS The DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH and QUEENSBURY has instituted a proceeding before the sheriff of Dumfriesshire, against the REV. WILLIAM BROWN CLARK, formerly minister of Halfmorton, and now the Free Church minister at Canonbie, for having trespassed on his lands in that township by erecting a tent upon the moss at Canonbie for the worship of the adherents to the Free Church. SHOP HOURS -- We understand that it is the intention of the grocers and other trades-people in Carlisle, to imitate the example of the drapers and ironmongers - and close their shops at seven o'clock in the evening. Such a step can do them but little injury, and must prove of great advantage to the numerous young men in their employ. ECONOMICAL FUEL - A HINT FOR THE POOR. - At this inclement season it may be useful to the poorer classes to attend to the following advice, which a correspondent assures us is founded upon experience: "Let the fire be made up with about two-thirds of gas coke, and when the fire has kindled, throw upon it about one-third of nut coal. This will give a hotter and more economical fire than if it had been made entirely of the best coal." ACCIDENT -- On Saturday night last, as the REV. MR. MONKHOUSE, of Lysick Hall, was returning from Wigton in a gig with a spirited horse, he was upset in fording a rivulet, near Bassenthwaite Hawse, and was thrown into the water with the vehicle above him. Fortunately his cries were heard, and assistance procured, or the consequences must have been fatal, as the rev. gentleman could not possibly have extricated himself. MAGISTRATES OFFICE, COURTS, CARLISLE, NOV. 11, 1843. -- Magistrates present, W. HODGSON, Esq., and the REV. WM. REES: - JOHN WARDROP, and ISAAC ALLEN, alias ISAAC CARLYLE, were convicted in the penalty of £5, for setting snares for hares, in one of SIR JAMES GRAHAM's woods, near Brisco-hill, in the parish of Arthuret, and in default of payment, were committed to the gaol at Carlisle for two months, with hard labour. WARDROP, though quite a boy, is an old offender, and has been convicted of a similar offence before.