The funeral, which took place on Sunday, was made the
occasion for a demonstration of sympathy and indignation by the friends of the murdered man, and of hostility by his enemies. At the spot where M. Stambouloff was cut down, the procession stopped, the priests offered a prayer, and M. Petkoff, who was injured at the time of the murder, began to deliver a funeral oration. Almost at once, however, a disturbance and panic took place, caused, it is said, by an unprovoked charge of mounted police. The English diplo- matic agent, Sir Arthur Nicholson, was so indignant at the incident that he at once withdrew, and lodged a formal complaint against the treatment to which the foreign repre- sentatives had been subjected. At the cemetery no actual violence took place, but there was a counter-demonstration of " Russophiles and Socialists,"—a sinister combination.
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