Mr.Bateman, his daughter's husband, fell ill, and his wife was obliged to return to England with him; the Bishop's other chaplain died, and also some of his best friends.

On going, a few years later, to consecrate a church at Singapore, he visited Moulmein, and was introduced to Dr.Judson, with whom he was very much struck.
The great work connected with Daniel Wilson's name, as that of Bishop's College is with Middleton's, is the building of the Cathedral of Calcutta.

"What do you say, my four children," he writes, "to your father's attempting to build a cathedral to the name of the Lord his God in this heathen land ?" It had been the desire of Bishop Middleton, but there had been too much to do during his nine years, and it was only now that at last the times were ripe.

Subscriptions were opened, and the Bishop devoted a large amount of his income to the fund; plans were drawn up, land granted freely, and on the 9th of October, 1839, the first stone of St.Paul's Cathedral was laid by the Bishop.
Just at this time there was a most remarkable move made towards Christianity.

Krishnaghur, 130 miles from Calcutta, was the great centre of the worship of Krishna, one of the manifestations of Vishnu.