Y. S. M. _Orange Blossom._--Can any reader of "N. & Q." inform me why the flowers of the orange blossom are so universally used in the dress of a bride? and from what date they have been so used? AUGUSTA. _Mr. Pepys his Queries._--I cannot say that I met with Pepys as Fielding did Shakspeare, in a _Journey from this World to the next_; but I met with seven of his Queries among the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian, addressed to Sir William Dugdale, a name dear to all orthodox antiquaries. It would appear the Secretary to the Admiralty felt the want of a "medium of inter-communication" in his day. Here are his Queries: 1. Whether any foreigners are to be found in our list of English admirals? 2. The reason or account to be given of the place assigned to our admirals in the Act of Precedence? 3. Whether any of the considerable families of our nobility or gentry have been raised by the sea? 4. Some instances of the greatest ransoms heretofore set upon prisoners of greatest quality. 5. The descent and posterity of Sir Francis Drake; and what estate is now in the possession of any of his family derived from him. 6. Who Sir Anthony Ashby was? 7. What are and have been generally the professions, trades, or qualifications, civil or military, that have and do generally raise families in England to wealth and honour in Church and State? J. YEOWELL. 50. Burton Street. _Foreign Medical Education._--Can any contributor direct me to any sources of information on the regulations concerning medical instruction and medical degrees in the principal universities on the Continent? MEDICUS. * * * * * Minor Queries with Answers. _Chandler, Bishop of Durham._--Lord Dover, in the second volume of his edition of Walpole's _Letters to Sir Horace Mann_, p. 373., in a note, thus speaks of this prelate: "A learned prelate and author of various polemical works, he had been raised to the see of Durham in 1730, as it was then said, by symoniacal means." Can any of your readers inform me where I can obtain evidence of the symoniacal means by which _it is said_ this bishop obtained the bishopric of Durham? One would scarcely think so cautious a man as Lord Dover would refer to the imputation, without some evidence on which his lordship could rely. Mr. Surtees, in his _History of the Bishops of Durham_, makes no allusion to the symoniacal means by which Chandler obtained his promotion to the see of Durham. He gives a list of the bishop's printed works, amongst which is a "charge to the grand jury of Durham concerning engrossing of corn, &c., 1740." Can you, or any of your readers, inform me where this pamphlet is to be met with? For I am curious to know how a bishop could make a _charge_ to a grand jury. There must surely be some mistake in the title of the pamphlet. FRA. MEWBURN. Darlington.