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William Russell, in past days deputy-surveyor of 'canny Newcastle, and a genuine Northumbrian in dialect, brogue, and shrewdness, was giving his evidence at an important trial in the Newcastle court-house, when he said "As I was going along the quay, I saw a hubbleshew coming out of a chare-foot."
Not aware that on Tyne-side the word 'hubbleshew' meant 'a concourse of riotous persons; that the narrow alleys or lanes of Newcastle 'old town' were called by their inhabitants 'chares; and that the lower end of each alley, where it opened upon quay-side, was termed a 'chare-foot; the judge, seeing only one part of the puzzle, inquired the meaning of the word 'hubbleshew. "A crowd of disorderly persons," answered the deputy-surveyor.
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