Format:	Set Test and Own Choice
Test Piece:	'Achieved is the Glorious Work' from The Creation 1858 or 'On Thee Each Living Soul Awaits' from The Creation 1858
Adjudicators:	Samuel Hughes , E. Stanton Jones , Uriah Richardson
Venue:	Belle Vue, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Set Test Draw
1	Accrington	Radcliffe Barnes		5
2	Dewsbury	Squire Greenwood		2
3	Mossley Temperance	William Taylor		6
4	Holmfirth Temperance	W. Mosley		3
5	Meltham Mills	Henry Hartley		4
	Gomersall	John Brook		1
	Ossett Temperance	Richard Smith		7
	Monks Bridge	J. F. Drake		8

Two movements from 'The Creation' - 'On Thee each living soul awaits' and 'Achieved is the glorious work' - plus an own-choice test piece.
Prizes: 1st: £25 2nd: £10 3rd: £6 4th: £4 5th: £3
Accrington Free Press of Saturday 11th September 1858 states that a carrier pigeon specially taken to Belle Vue by Accrington Band arrived with the result of the contest at 7pm., which was later confirmed by telegraph. Accrington band arrived home at 2.30 in the morning.