A reply to an interesting answer to the Rev. Walter Blake Kirwan's letter from Dublin to a friend in the country, by James Patson, a galway resident : Also a confutation of a defence of religious celibacy and concomitant vows, fully proving the state of celibacy a state of sin. Illustrated with a striking likeness of the cobler as work, and his coadjusor. By a friend to procreation.