But with some of it,--the larger part as I think,--he endeavoured, in concert with his stepfather, to float a newspaper, which failed.

There seem to have been two newspapers in which he was so concerned, _The National Standard_ and _The Constitutional_.

On the latter he was engaged with his stepfather, and in carrying that on he lost the last of his money.

_The National Standard_ had been running for some weeks when Thackeray joined it, and lost his money in it.

It ran only for little more than twelve months, and then, the money having gone, the periodical came to an end.