Passage from North and South in character (7)
I believe the answer is:
transit
'passage' is the definition.
(I know that passage can be written as transit)
'north and south in character' is the wordplay.
'north' becomes 'N' (abbreviation).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'south' becomes 'S' (abbreviation).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'character' becomes 'trait' ().
'n'+'s'='ns'
'ns' placed into 'trait' is 'TRANSIT'.
'from' is the link.
(Other definitions for transit that I've seen before include "Passage of a planet across the sun's disc" , "In - - (en route)" , "Passage of heavenly body" , "Crossing - passage" , "Pass across/through" .)