24 SEPTEMBER 1870, Page 2

The French Government, with all the foreign Ambassadors, has removed

to Tours, and even there it does not seem to be quite safe. It was stated on Thursday that the Prussians had entered Pithiviers, a town about twenty miles north-east of Orleans, which seemed like a detour from the road to Paris intended to look after the armies said to be forming on the Loire, at Seaumur and Angers. But yesterday it was announced that the Prussians appeared to have relinquished their movement on Orleans, and that Tours is well fortified and provisioned, and ready for a siege. In case of attack, the Government, it is said, would again move off, probably to Nantes, at the mouth of the Loire, or even to Toulouse. In point of fact, the whole key of the situation lies, for the present at least, in Paris.